It's 100 years since Madam Butterfly stepped on stage at for the first time, heralding the arrival of one of opera's best loved and most tragic heroines.
Puccini's Butterfly was created amidst an intense European vogue for all things Japanese. She fuelled an obsession with the geisha and has been described as a classic representation of the West's view of the Eastern Woman - infantile, yet savage. Opera singer Akiko Nakajima and Lesley Downer join Jenni to discuss whether Cio Cio San has been good or bad for Japanese women.
