Norma
A vestal priestess who has been seduced. She discovers her
paramour in an attempt to seduce her friend, also a vestal priestess,
and in despair contemplates the murder of her baseborn children. The
libretto is a melodrama by Romani, music by Bellini (1831.) (Norma,
an opera.)
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