Lead soloist Svetlana Lunkina flees Bolshoi Ballet after threats THE LATEST victim of the curse of the Bolshoi Ballet, the leading soloist Svetlana Lunkina, has decided to leave the theatre and live in Canada after receiving unspecified threats. The sudden decision by one of its most talented ballerinas has added to a sense of crisis at the world's largest ballet company, where detectives are trying to hunt down the person responsible for throwing sulphuric acid in the face of the artistic director, Sergei Filin.