The Viennese Opera Ball is a nonprofit association under Section 501(c)(3). 

The mission of the Viennese Opera Ball in New York is to preserve and promote Austrian cultural heritage in the United States, foster Austrian–American cultural and economic relations, and support charitable initiatives in both the United States and Austria dedicated to music, the arts, and the broader cultural community. 

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Our Beneficiary of the 69th Viennese Opera Ball

Thank you to our guests for supporting the Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research to benefit the music therapy program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

In 1996, Grammy-nominated songwriter and philanthropist, Denise Rich, lived every parent’s worst fear as one of her three daughters, a beautiful 27-year-old actress and Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor named Gabrielle, succumbed to acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Gabrielle lost her battle, but her dream lives on in the work of the organization created in her memory, Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research. It was Gabrielle’s idea to create a Foundation that would fund the best and brightest scientific investigators in the nation with the hope that less toxic treatments, and ultimately a cure, might be discovered. Her mother and sisters, Daniella and Ilona, believed the best way to honor Gabrielle’s memory was to turn their extraordinary grief into a positive force for others.

The mission of Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research is to encourage the development of more effective therapies for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and related cancers. For more information about the mission of Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation, please visit www.gabriellesangels.org

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Past beneficiaries include:

2025             Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2024             Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2023             Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2022             Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2021              Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2020             Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2019              Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2018              Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation
2017               US Friends of the Jewish Museum of Vienna
2016               The Ronald McDonald House
2015               AIMS (American Institute of Musical Studies)
2014               Carnegie Hall
2013               Carnegie Hall
2012               FEED Foundation
2011                FEED Foundation
2010               UN Foundation
2009              SOS Children’s Villages
2008              CARE
2007               SOS Children’s Villages
2006               Special Olympics
2005               Special Olympics
2004               Central Park Conservancy
2003               Tri-lateral Cultural Alliance
2002               Tri-lateral Cultural Alliance  – Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York , State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
2001 and earlier: Margit Bokor-Norman Scott Memorial Fund for Cancer Research