Custom Permalinks - Same Name

[schumpert]

Hello,

I am managing a site that has, or will have, individual pages for the operas (with pictures, cast list, reviews, etc.) that the organization does. The site also has a blog, /blog/, whose permalinks look like this: /http://site.com/%year%/%month%/sample-post/

Right now, I have all the shows listed on a repertoire page and can create individual pages for each opera performed. So, the structure would look like this: /repertoire/opera-name/.

However, some operas have been and will be done more than once. I would like to keep numbers out of the names of the individual opera pages themselves (not: repertoire/opera-name-2012/), but still indicate in what year the opera occurred. I'd like to do this so I can have more than one link with the same opera-name (instead of having to do opera-name-1, opera-name-2, etc.).

I'm wondering about this possibility as a solution:

I could use the custom links plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-permalinks/) to rename the permalinks for the opera-name pages.

So, if the opera-name page's permalink was originally going to be /repertoire/opera-name/, I could change it to be /repertoire/2011/opera-name/, the year indicating when it was performed.

My concern about this solution is that I don't exactly know what the plugin is doing or how it affects the permalinks of the blog since a number has been placed in the opera-name permalink.

Has anyone used this plugin? Or can anyone suggest an alternate solution?

Thank you,
Scott