Real name: Marcos Zapata Mañas

Effective period / Period of releases: 1960

Spanish playwright and poet (1842-1913)
Some zarzuela librettos: La abadía del Rosario (1880), Un regalo de boda (1885) and La campana milagrosa (1888), the excellent "El anillo de hierro" (1878) with music of the great but unknown first Spanish romantic symphony composer Pedro Miguel Marqués, Camoens (1879), El reloj de la lucerna (1884) y Covadonga, La capilla de Lanuza (1871), El castillo de Simancas (1873) o El solitario de Yuste (1877)