Fête de l’Opéra 2026 NYC | Opera, Philanthropy & Supporting Children

Lynette, this is such an historic, amazing gala. French American Aid for Children is a charity that's been around for 87 years and they give grants to the underserved children in France and the United States. Tonight we're raising money, we're celebrating 87 years and opera. Is the message that you want the viewers to take away from tonight? There are so many children in need in the world. Children are amazing and they are our future and we must invest in them. We are very interested in both countries and we give grants to both charities and we visit them. They've given us money for probably a decade now. You know, they've given us well over a million dollars. We are very grateful to receive grants from the French-American Aid for Children because we use it for all the development of our association. So we do Little Kip's Bay, we do Spoons, we do Sports de la Ville, who's being honored this evening. We have about half and half, half in France, half in the United States, and we're adding two new charities for 2027, one being FIT.