I. Months ago when OV received a public screenshot from Blackstone Collusion - Swan Lake for innocence and also, humour.
II. Peace negotiations - Night on Bare Mountain, due to the dissonant musicality fitting with the irrational megolomania of NPO.
III. Declaration of War by NPO - Dance of the Knights, Prokofiev - NPO swaggering into battle as it has done almost forever but this time, everyone hears the music.
IV. NPO are being curbstomp'd - O Fortuna.
V. NPO's allies race into coward-mode. - Immediate Music, Blasphemy 2.0.
War currently - Introductions, Dies Irae, basically all ReligiousRequiems, from Mozart to Berlioz to Verdi. Can't have melodrama without religious imagery.
Strauss', Einleitung of Also Sprach Zarathustra.