In the aftermath of September 11 76-year-old composer and conductor Pierre Boulez was arrested at a Swiss hotel.The frantic search for anything that smelled of terrorism led the police everywhere to make some hasty decisions.

Manuel Fernández Caballero, one of the most important composers of the so-called reformed or romantic zarzuela, and as such, a colleague to Francisco A.Barbieri, Emilio Arrieta, Cristóbal Oudrid, Rafael Hernando and José Inzenga, composed the music to Los sobrinos del Capitán Grant, which was premièred at the Príncipe Alfonso Theatre in Madrid on 25 August 1877.

La Fattucchiera is one of the most significant operas of the Hispanic romanticism.No other work, during the first third of the nineteenth century, reached such repercussion nor did it survive in the historiography maintaining at all times such high esteem.