Plot Summary:Young composer Vincenzo Bellini is still an unknown music student in Napoli when he finds in a maiden's eyes the inspiration for the aria that would become his most beloved one, "Casta Diva".
Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini and his problems with his opera Norma (1831). Norma tells the passionate love story of a Gallican priestess and a Roman proconsul (governor of a province). The film is unique because it uses abstract paintings-in-motion to express the passion between the two main characters.