The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts announced a “just-added” event: a screening of a San Francisco Opera production of Madama Butterfly.

It was recorded in December 2007 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, and is scheduled for presentation in the Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall at 7 p.m. June 25.

One of the world’s most beloved and dramatic operas, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini is a classic tale of colliding hearts and cultures set in 19th-century Japan.

Internationally acclaimed soprano Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, a geisha tragically torn between two worlds and forced to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to retain her honor.

Music Director Donald Runnicles conducts the SF Opera Orchestra and Chorus in this stirring production that features some of Puccini’s most popular music.

A San Francisco Chronicle reviewer wrote this: “A compelling and almost breathlessly taut rendition of this timeless tragedy. ... Patricia Racette’s portrayal is an incendiary performance.”

The 2-hour, 45-minute opera (with a 10-minute intermission) is sung in Italian with English supertitles. Watch a preview.

Tickets: $15 regular, $7.50 for students and children. Tickets go on sale June 1 through the Mondavi Center box office: (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or www.mondaviarts.org.