Puccini

There’s a catch, though: She believes she was romantically involved with famed Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, constantly talking to him as if he was right next to her.

Puccini’s heroine here is overwhelmed by oscillating sine waves.

In one scene, Callas is walking past a theater and an orchestra materializes in the rain — and suddenly she’s in a scene from the second act of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.”

The company also showed an unexpected serious side, remounting its production of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” sung in English and Japanese.

Los Angeles Opera opens its fall season with a production of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” that sets the story on a 1930s Hollywood film set.