The Bolshoi Ballet's Svetlana Zakharova performs a dress rehearsal in New York on October 18, 2012

The Bolshoi Ballet’s Svetlana Zakharova performs a dress rehearsal at the David H. Koch Theater in New York on October 18, 2012. Zakharova, one of Russia’s most famous ballerinas, “will not dance ‘Onegin’,” spokeswoman Katerina Novikova told AFP, in what media reports have suggested is a tantrum over her failure to be cast on opening night.