{"id":67336,"date":"2020-03-04T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=67336"},"modified":"2020-03-04T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:03:29","slug":"in-memoriam-patricia-barretto-former-executive-director-of-opera-atelier-dies-at-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/03\/04\/in-memoriam-patricia-barretto-former-executive-director-of-opera-atelier-dies-at-45\/","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORIAM | Patricia Barretto, Former Executive Director Of Opera Atelier, Dies At 45"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Patricia
Patricia Barretto (Photo via the Harris Theater)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Patricia Barretto, a well-known arts leader in both Toronto and Chicago, passed away on Tuesday from breast cancer at the age of 45.<\/p>\n

Barretto served as former Executive Director of Opera Atelier, between 2011 to 2015. She left Toronto to join the Harris Theater in Chicago, as vice-president of sales and marketing, and later as CEO in 2017.<\/p>\n

Opera Atelier\u2019s Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg described Barretto\u2019s loss as one of the greatest personal losses of their lives. \u201cIt is impossible to imagine our world without her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPatricia was one of our greatest sources of support and inspiration \u2013 loving, protective and tireless in her support of us personally and professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hailing from Mumbai, Barretto moved to Toronto to launch a 20-year career in the arts. She worked her way up from the box office of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to the marketing department. She later joined the marketing teams at The Royal Conservatory and Canadian Stage. A strong advocate for the arts, Barretto served as a jury member for Canada Council for the Arts and Toronto Arts Council, and was a frequent speaker on panels including the famed Guggenheim Museum and Chicago Women in Philanthropy.<\/p>\n

\"Patricia
l-r: Marshall Pynkoski, Patricia Barretto, Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg. (Photo: Tom Sandler)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cJeannette and I had the privilege of spending an hour with her one week ago,\u201d said Pynkoski. \u201cHer first words upon seeing us were \u2018I\u2019m so grateful, I\u2019m so grateful, I\u2019m so grateful.\u2019 We can only echo the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricia died at home surrounded by her husband, son, parents, brother, and extended family.<\/p>\n

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The arts community is in mourning over the tragic loss of an inspirational arts advocate with Opera Atelier and Harris Theater in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33451,41,63],"tags":[2494,35539],"yst_prominent_words":[10459,35533,35538,24723,31726,8395,35536,25509,13531,13521,20675,28045,20674,6886,7290,35535,8757,18945,35537,6741],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Patricia-Barretto.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-hw4","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67343,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67336\/revisions\/67343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67336"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}