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[Natalia]

This was just announced in the Mariinsky forum...but now that she's a permanent Principal with the Bolshoi Ballet, let's properly place Obraztsova in the forum of her new company.

Congratulations, Principal! It's about time.

http://www.bolshoi.r...ons/ballet/899/

Hopefully, her website will be back up-and-running soon, too...with a new homepage to show-off her new company.

So it's a debut in ANYUTA tomorrow (Feb 2) and the Kobborg SYLPHIDE on the 8th.

The Sky's the limit. Hopefully we will be seeing her here in the USA this summer, either as Swanilda in DC or one of the other ballets in California.

[Fraildove]

Congratulations, Evgenia!!!! It's a long time coming!!!! And the ballet world lifts their glasses to a beautiful young dancer with grace, beauty, and perseverance! Brava!!!!!!

[ksk04]

Excellent! Hopefully she will dance Swan Lake with the Bolshoi this summer on their trip to LA. An opportunity I would not have received when the Mariinsky comes with their Swan Lake a few months later!

[Helene]

Like Galina Ulanova before her: congratulations to Ms. Obratzsova for the well-deserved recognition

[Cygnet]

Finally, vindication and victory!  Felicitations and congratulations to the newest Prima of the Bolshoi Theatre, Yevgenia Obraztsova.
This is a RED letter day in her career.  "Brava" & bouquets x 1 trillion to her !  

Yuri Fateev? >!

[elena]

If Mariinsky management isn't kicking themselves over this, they should be...

I found this as well http://www.bolshoi.r...cles/2012/2095/ which maybe is the formal announcement but google translate isn't helping me much here...

So happy for Evgenia


Edit: link via google translate http://translate.goo...2/2095/&act=url

[little-junkie]

This is absolutely great news! Does it mean she might be coming to Canada in May? Wow...I better get tickets to all the performances.

[lmspear]

I agree with everybody else.  

[Rosa]

to Ms. Obraztsova!

[macnellie]

Wonderful!

[Kerry1968]

Natalia, on 01 February 2012 - 09:46 AM, said:

The Sky's the limit. Hopefully we will be seeing her here in the USA this summer, either as Swanilda in DC or one of the other ballets in California.

Wow, that would be a GREAT. I mean, Swanilda in DC.

[Natalia]

Helene, on 01 February 2012 - 10:32 AM, said:

Like Galina Ulanova before her: congratulations to Ms. Obratzsova for the well-deserved recognition

Right, Helene. But there's one major difference: Ulanova, like Semenova earlier, was already an established Principal in Leningrad before she moved to Moscow. Obraztsova was denied Principal status in her home troupe years after ballet experts and fans around the world thought that she had earned it especially when compared to 'others' pushed ahead of her to Principal status...ahum. Thank goodness, the nightmare is over.

I wish the same good luck to Ekaterina Kondaurova, i.e., "Get the Heck Out of Dodge!"

[Mme. Hermine]

[Natalia]

Thanks and WOW! That was fast and fantastic...."fast" as in one hour ago: 11 pm Moscow time - 2pm EST?!  (Even if it was a matinee, the timing of this is impressive.) I see a lot of Maximova in Obraztsova, just looking at her in that costume, the face, the 'soul' that shines through, etc.

[Pointe Shoes]

I'm so happy I could run down the streets singing with joy. The Mariinsky lost an amazing ballerina. Congratulations to the Bolshoi for acquiring such a lovely dancer and to Evgenia for her long overdue promotion.