But the opera was a grand thing for the zoo, and the only reason we lost the opera, Ralph Corbett, who was a benefactor of the opera, provided the money to redo Music Hall and that’s when we really began our rebuilding program, ’cause we could get rid of this big- It was a hideous structure. I would’ve liked to have even seen the opera company build a new building on the periphery of the zoo, because it brought in a sophisticated group of people that often became benefactors. They’d leave us in their will, and so it was a good thing. That was a extracurricular activity that proved to be a solid activity for the zoo. Very unusual for- Very unusual. And we had world acclaim. In 1999, you hosted the seventh world conference on breeding endangered species.
