Die Sieger

Die Sieger (The Victors; WWV 89), is a draft sketch for an opera text by Richard Wagner.

The fragmentary prose sketch which survives shows that it was based on legends which Wagner discovered in Eugène Burnouf's 1844 Introduction to the History of Buddhism.

Although both are ostracised by the other monks, Buddha permits their chaste union, and allows Prakriti to join the monastic community.

Although Wagner planned a production of Die Sieger for 1870 in his 1865 programme of proposals for King Ludwig II of Bavaria, he never progressed it; however elements of the story persist in his opera Parsifal.

[4][5] Elements of Die Sieger were used by the British composer Jonathan Harvey in his own opera, Wagner Dream (2007).