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Blodwen
Blodwen () is an opera in three acts composed in 1878 by Dr Joseph Parry to a Welsh libretto by Richard Davies. It was the first opera written in the Welsh language.
Reception.
The opera premiered on 21 May 1878 at the Temperance Hall in Aberystwyth, with Parry himself conducting.
It was well-received, with one reporter from the Welsh-language magazine "Y Faner" going as far as to say that the opera was the "most charming piece of music" he had
, making his last appearance against Bohemia, a country that technically did not exist at the time, in 1908.
Family.
Rutherford's brothers Sep and Bob were also professional footballers. He was married twice: first to Edith Olive McQueen in May 1908with whom he had a son, John, who was on Arsenal's books at the same time as his father, but only ever played one League match for the cluband then to Blodwen Jones in 1944. His great-grandson Greg Rutherford is the 2012 Olympic long