Angelina
Vorontsova

Benois de la Danse nominee

She began studying at the Voronezh State Choreographic College with teachers Marina Lenkina, Nabila Valitova and Tatiana Frolova. Since 2008, she has been working at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, class of Natalia Arkhipova. After graduating from the Academy in 2009, she joined the troupe of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, where she performed the main and leading roles.

Principal Nikolai Tsiskaridze became her first partner and teacher.

In 2013, she joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet Company in St. Petersburg as a prima ballerina. The repertoire includes Sylphide, Giselle, Laurencia, Juliet, Cinderella in the ballets of the same name, Nikiya (La Bayadère), Jeanne, Diana Mireille (Flames of Paris), Lisa (La Fille mal gardée), Masha (The Nutcracker), Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Valeria (Spartacus), Svanilda (Coppelia), The Tsar Maiden (The Hunchback Horse), Odette / Odile (Swan Lake), Kytheria (Hidalgo of La Mancha), Medora (Le Corsaire), Kitri (Don Quixote), Esmeralda (Notre Dame de Paris), Radish (Cipollino), roles in the ballets Prelude and White Darkness.

She was a recipient of the Galina Ulanova Foundation Scholarship (2006).
Winner of first prizes at the International Ballet Competitions Arabesque (Perm, 2008) and in Moscow (2009).
Youth grant recipient of the Triumph Award (2009).
Youth Prize For Achievements in Stage Art (St. Petersburg, 2019).
Awarded the Exercises Prize by the Russian Theatre Workers' Union (2009).
Honored Artist of Russia (2024).
Winner of the Russian National Andrei Mironov Figaro Award (2025).