The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Cleveland Amory (September 2 1917 – October 14 1998) was an American author who devoted his life to promoting animal rights. "


Biography
Amory was born September 2 1917 to Robert Amory and Leonore Cobb Amory daughter of Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb. He took part in many campaigns such as the one waged by Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society against whaling and sealing.

Cleveland Amory (September 2 1917 – October 14 1998) was an American author who devoted his life to promoting animal rights. ". The executive director of the Humane Society of the United States described Amory as "the founding father of the modern animal protection movement.