Vestal Virgins in Richmond

This is a clipping from the Richmond Dispatch, dated April 7, 1901. It describes an upcoming performance of a play or musical about the last Vestal Virgins. 

"Delsarte" seems to refer to an eponymous acting method popular in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Tannhauser is an opera by Richard Wagner. La Rusticanna seems to be another opera, from 1890. The Holy City is a Christian song originating in the nineteenth century.

Unfortunately, the last Vestal Virgin really did convert to Christianity, after the Temple of Vesta was closed by Theodosius I in 391.