Cultural depictions thumb|Scene from the opera La Conquista, 2005 Hernán Cortés is a character in the opera La Conquista (2005) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero, which depicts the major episodes of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521.
Cultural depictions thumb|Scene from the opera La Conquista 2005 Hernán Cortés is a character in the opera La Conquista (2005) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero which depicts the major episodes of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521