"Die Bajadere" is one of Johann Strauss II's polkas, Op.
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The themes of "Die Bajadere" were drawn from the score of Strauss's first operetta, Indigo und die vierzig Räuber ("Indigo and the Forty Thieves"), loosely based on the Arabian Nights, which premiered in 1871 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
After a general repeat of the same A major 1st part and its successive 2nd one, the polka proceeds into a frenzy, heavily-chorded phrase with an abrupt conclusion, all in the home key.
Marius Petipa's ballet La Bayadère premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, February 4, 1877.