she is city opera?

There’s a rumor that’s been sort of meandering around for the past few weeks in vague will o’ the wisp format concerning the New York City Opera. (As if anything about that company right now is anything but vague, but still…) So here goes. One of the restructuring models that La Cieca keeps hearing about is some kind of diumvirate, i.e., a household name front person to be the public face of the company and a behind the scenes person to do the day to day scut work. Obviously this second mole-like creature is the one who’s going to do all the real work, but let’s not worry about that poor drudge. The top spot at NYCO seems to resolving itself into a Mary Garden-style “directa,” which, according to our source, would go to a diva whose career is still quite active but can be expected to wind down in the next five years or so. The singer in question thus will position herself as “Bubbles II,” though, should all this come to pass, we hope she will have an easier time of running the place than her Titian-tressed predecessor.