Gustav Mahler and Arturo Toscanini feuded over the right to conduct this opera at the Met shortly before Mahler left for the New York Philharmonic. During the long love duet in Act 2 of this opera, the lovers ignore when an offstage mezzo-soprano warns them that night will end soon. A shepherd says “bleak and empty is the sea” in Act 3 of this opera, which begins with a long English horn solo. In this opera’s last scene, which was originally titled “Transfiguration,” the lead soprano gazes upon her lover’s dead body while addressing her servant Brangäne (“bron-GAY-nuh”). A half-diminished chord spelled as “F, B, D-sharp, G-sharp” finally resolves in this opera’s concluding “Liebestod.” For 10 points, name this pioneering Wagner opera about the romance between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 121.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 118.90 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 128.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.22 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 87.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 113.50 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 104.17 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 112.17 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 114.57 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 106.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech C | WashU A | 24 | -5 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU B | Mississipi State | 37 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Bowdoin A | 43 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Yale | 46 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT | Dartmouth A | 49 | -5 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont | Carleton College | 49 | -5 |
| Randy Guo | Texas B | Texas A | 51 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State B | 64 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown | Catholic | 64 | -5 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Chicago C | 65 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech A | Washington A | 77 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 91 | -5 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Birmingham | 93 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Warwick A | 93 | -5 |
| Katie Farthing | Vanderbilt B | Alabama B | 93 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Liberty B | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 96 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan State | 96 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | CWRU A | 96 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Illinois B | 96 | 10 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto F | Western C | 96 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 100 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia A | NYU A | 101 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Columbia B | 102 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | South Carolina A | 104 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 104 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Toronto C | 104 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC A | Guelph | 104 | -5 |
| Benedykt Chodzko-Zajko | Southampton A | Oxford C | 104 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | James Madison B | 105 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Northwestern D | 105 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | MIT | 105 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Manchester | 105 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | McGill B | 105 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Kentucky | 105 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | John Jay | 105 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Cornell A | 106 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | NC State B | 112 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | CWRU B | 112 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Brandeis B | 112 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto G | Toronto B | 112 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Southampton B | 112 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | McMaster B | 113 | -5 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Indiana C | 115 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech D | 115 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Rutgers A | 115 | 10 |
| Aiden Bang | Johns Hopkins B | Rutgers B | 115 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina A | VCU | 118 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell C | 119 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 120 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 120 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Toronto E | 122 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto D | 123 | 10 |
| Neal Sengupta | North Carolina C | Duke | 123 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 123 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State A | South Carolina B | 124 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Northwestern C | 125 | 10 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Minnesota A | 127 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Imperial B | 127 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Bowdoin B | 129 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 130 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 131 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Toronto Metropolitan | 131 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Western A | 132 | 10 |
| Winston Fugate | Wake Forest | James Madison A | 132 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago E | Northwestern B | 132 | 10 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 132 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | Florida B | Central Florida B | 132 | 0 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida B | 132 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida A | 132 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 132 | 0 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Illinois C | 132 | 0 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Georgia Tech C | 132 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cardiff | 132 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | McGill A | 132 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | UBC A | 132 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Claremont | 132 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Tennessee B | 132 | 10 |
| Zach Kennett | Alabama B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 0 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Maryland A | 132 | 0 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Maryland B | 132 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland C | Vassar | 132 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Rochester | 132 | 0 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | Binghamton B | 132 | 0 |