Pictured: Year 9 and 10 pupils rehearse Wales National Opera's Rhondda Rips It UP at of John Frost School in Newport, Wales, UK. Thursday 11 May 2018
Re: Welsh National Opera is creating a new musical hall-style all female piece for the summer called Rhondda Rips It Up. It's about the life of suffragette Lady Rhondda with songs inspired by suffragette slogans. Opera opening next month in Newport, south Wales, where Lady Rhondda blew up a postbox with a home-made bomb and went to jail for.