'I wanted to combine the story of Madame Butterfly, an opera I’d seen many times working for the English National Opera for a number of years, with the well known...
"I wanted to combine the story of Madame Butterfly, an opera I’d seen many times working for the English National Opera for a number of years, with the well known cherry blossom of Japan. Their fleeting beauty providing a metaphor in Japanese culture for beauty and mortality".