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 .
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 .