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 |
| Katie Farthing | Vanderbilt B | Alabama B | 93 | -5 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Birmingham | 93 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Warwick A | 93 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto F | Western C | 96 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan State | 96 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | CWRU A | 96 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Liberty B | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 96 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Illinois B | 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 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Toronto C | 104 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC A | Guelph | 104 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | South Carolina A | 104 | 10 |
| Benedykt Chodzko-Zajko | Southampton A | Oxford C | 104 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 104 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | MIT | 105 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Kentucky | 105 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | McGill B | 105 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | James Madison B | 105 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Northwestern D | 105 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Manchester | 105 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | John Jay | 105 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Cornell A | 106 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto G | Toronto B | 112 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Brandeis B | 112 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | CWRU B | 112 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | NC State B | 112 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Southampton B | 112 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | McMaster B | 113 | -5 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech D | 115 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Indiana C | 115 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Rutgers A | 115 | 10 |
| Aiden Bang | Johns Hopkins B | Rutgers B | 115 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina A | VCU | 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 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Toronto Metropolitan | 131 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 131 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | McGill A | 132 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | UBC A | 132 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Western A | 132 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Claremont | 132 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Georgia Tech C | 132 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Tennessee B | 132 | 10 |
| Zach Kennett | Alabama B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 132 | 0 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Illinois C | 132 | 0 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cardiff | 132 | 10 |
| 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 |