Due dates

Having stated outright that Hertha is expected to give birth approximately 'at midsummer' (i.e. the end of June) I now need to keep very careful track of my timeline (while being very careful not to say anything else too specific!)

I want her six months pregnant at the time of the masquerade (taking place at an unstated date) and seven months pregnant for "Don Juan"; a month to stage and rehearse an entire new production is probably a bit of a push, to put it mildly, but then they don't need said production to be any *good* ;-p The opera can afford to be a bit rough round the edges, given that nobody is expecting it to be a commercial success or to run for more than one performance...

So I think I therefore probably *can't* say that the story is currently at the beginning of April, although I've been saying that it is now spring. ( Read more... )