A SIX-year-old from Chipping Sodbury took to the Bristol Hippodrome stage last month, for a performance of Madama Butterfly.

Dottie Winkworth joined Ellen Kent's theatre company for her stage debut, as Sorrow in Puccini’s great tragic opera. 

A St John's Mead Primary School pupil, Dottie has attended Stagecoach Bristol North and Yate for the past two years, and was thrilled to be chosen to appear in the production. 

Her proud family and friends were all in the audience to support her.