Now, La Cieca believes in turning a gimlet eye on everyone and everything, you know that. But even your doyenne finds this latest Zinta Lundborg screed, well, harsh is the only word.

… the company’s funereal new logo is a black circle, which evokes thoughts of the deficit or even oblivion. Presenting four performances of “Esther,” starting on Nov. 7, won’t help matters.

A loud work by Hugo Weisgall about the Biblical queen, “Esther” was heard at City Opera in 1993, winning over few fans ….

In the 1950s and 1960s, European immigrants with intellectual tastes supported the company.

They are dead now, as dead as “Esther.”

More from Ms. Lundborg (whose name, by the way, is an anagram for “a burnt old zing”) at Bloomberg.com.