It’s been nearly a month since the last spurt of news about the New York City Opera, which, for those of you with not particularly long memories, is or was an opera company just off to the side of the Met at Lincoln Center. 

Well, now the first big story of March has crossed La Cieca’s desk. Renovations to the Koch Theater will include two side aisles in the orchestra section of seating, which means latecomers will now have only one dozen pairs of feet to tread upon instead of the former hundred. The re-aisling will eliminate about 200 seats from the theater, reducing the capacity to 2,576 including standing room and spaces for patrons with disabilities.

In the meantime, George Steel is already hard at work charming the socks off Justin Davidson in the current New York magazine.  ( “Like President Obama, Steel is plunging into a crisis with a record that is promising but thin.”) For those of you still following along, The Man of Steel promises a season announcement “to be announced in the next few weeks,” so La Cieca will reset her NYCO doomsday clock to mid-April at the very earliest.