Die Meister·singer von Nürnberg - 2025 ACF Nationals

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A controversial 1956 production of this opera featured a giant ball of leaves and flowers hanging over the characters’ heads. Three themes from this opera are combined after the climactic fugato of its densely contrapuntal C-major prelude. The original name of this opera’s antagonist (10[1])was one letter off from that of a critic with whom its composer (10[1])feuded. That antagonist’s attempts to serenade his love interest (10[1])are repeatedly interrupted by another character’s hammering, leading to a riot lamented in this opera’s aria “Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn!” (“vahn! vahn! EW-bur-all VAHN!”) In this opera, which usually lasts over four-and-a-half hours, the protagonist sings a “prize song” (10[2])better (10[1])than (10[1])Sixtus (10[1]-5[1])Beckmesser (10[2])does, and is helped (10[1]-5[1])by the cobbler Hans Sachs (10[2]-5[1])in gaining admission to the title guild. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, Wagner’s only mature comedy is what opera set in (-5[1])Nuremberg? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

ANSWER: Die Meister·singer von Nürnberg [or The Master-Singers of Nuremberg] (The 1956 production was Wieland Wagner’s Bayreuth production, meant to excise his grandfather’s politics. Beckmesser’s last name was originally “Hanslich” after the critic Eduard Hanslick.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Karan Gurazada	Texas	Arizona State	43	10
Justin Wytmar	Illinois A	Rutgers	56	10
Teigue Kelly	Penn State	Toronto C	65	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	UC Berkeley B	100	10
Adam Fine	Chicago A	Winona State	100	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Virginia Tech	101	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	WUSTL B	102	10
Tiffany Zhou	Florida	Indiana	103	10
Guy Indorante	Iowa State	Yale	103	-5
Eve Fleisig	UC Berkeley A	Georgia Tech	104	10
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	UCF	104	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Chicago B	108	10
Alan Wu	Vanderbilt	Cornell A	108	-5
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins	Ohio State	113	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Toronto A	113	-5
Micah Colman	Waterloo B	North Carolina B	113	10
Owen Mimno	NYU	RIT	120	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Harvard	120	-5
Russell Nip	British Columbia	Minnesota	132	-5
Joy An	Harvard	North Carolina A	133	10
Brian Hoff	Cornell B	Illinois B	134	0
Cormac Beirne	LSE	Ottawa	134	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	British Columbia	134	0
Sky Li	Toronto A	Columbia B	134	10
Richard Niu	Cornell A	Vanderbilt	134	10
Jem Burch	Yale	Iowa State	134	10

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Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	21	90%	0%	24%	105.32