La Cieca is hearing grumbles (second and third hand, but the hands are mostly reliable ones) that the current skeleton staff of the New York City Opera are being kept in the dark by the company’s board about future plans. In particular, La Cieca hears that one detail that will obviously be revealed in the very near future (within 24 hours at the latest), the identity of the company’s new General Director, is being treated as the most confidential of state secrets.

So here is how La Cieca predicts this will go down:

The NYCO has already given the exclusive story to Daniel Wakin at the New York Times, embargoed  until Thursday morning’s print edition  Most likely, the story will be online at nytimes.com well before midnight today.

Now, to get to the substance of that story, La Cieca turned to her most reliable source of all, asking, “So, who will be announced as the next General Director?”  At first the source insisted upon replying “Answer Unclear; Try Again” until your doyenne threatened “a bitch-slap that will knock you into next season, bitch.”  At which point the source came through loud and clear:

Of course, La Cieca may just possibly be wrong, in which case she will blame everything the other kind of 8-Ball and then immediately check herself into Passages Malibu. (And if it turns out that the new General Director is a Fucking Brit, well, cher public, you can pat yourselves on the back!)