Tickets went on sale this week for Madama Butterfly at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. This will not be a live opera; instead, it is a production that was recorded in December 2007 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House.

The Mondavi Center plans a screening at 7 p.m. June 25 in Jackson Hall. The 2-hour, 45-minute opera (with a 10-minute intermission) is sung in Italian with English supertitles. Watch a preview.

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.”

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.

Tickets: $15 regular, $7.50 for students and children. (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or www.mondaviarts.org.

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