Round 4: Tossup 15

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. (-5[1])During the long love duet in Act 2 of this opera, the lovers (10[1])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 (-5[1])her servant Brangäne (“bron-GAY-nuh”). A half-diminished chord spelled as “F, B, D-sharp, (10[1])G-sharp” (10[1])finally resolves in this opera’s concluding “Liebestod.” For 10 points, (10[1])name this pioneering Wagner opera about the romance between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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