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A song for a Spanish toreador from a French opera is a favorite of filmmakers. We sample a few unlikely uses of the martial melody — from a desert island to a food court to Sesame Street.

The pomp is more than circumstantial in performances of a genial Norwegian march. A drumline from the home country executes precision maneuvers while a conductor in Russia sports most excellent facial hair.

In an art form notorious for its excesses, Verdi's Aida can take the bigger-is-better approach to nearly laughable extremes. But its grand "Triumphal March" is built on a simple foundation.

The Japanese pianist's latest album begins with a tribute to a sound she's never liked: the chime of an alarm clock.

London's Covent Garden opera house hosted a debate Monday about the barriers between opera and ballet and the people. What's your opinion?

Spaces is Q2 Music's new series of documentaries that capture creative composers in their practice studios. The first installment focuses on the always eccentric Dan Deacon.

The son of a Civil War bandmaster wrote a march as raucous as two parades colliding. See a performance of Charles Ives' "Putnam's Camp" from Three Places in New England. It's a giddy fantasy about a small-town Fourth of July.

Pretty much the first thing that New York's Cardinal Egan shared about the new pointiff, the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires? That he loves opera.

The composer of Faust also wrote music fit for a pope. Wednesday, before the introduction of Pope Francis, a marching band played opera composer Charles Gounod's Pontifical March. Hear the stately, serene Vatican anthem.

A new opera by David T. Little chronicles three generations of soldiers' experiences in journalistic style — and resurrects some important questions about the function of art.