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Breaking: ‘Toxic’ Hamburg Ballet chief is fired after a year

Breaking: ‘Toxic’ Hamburg Ballet chief is fired after a year

New is just in that Hamburg Ballet has terminated its director Demis Volpi amid recent talk of a toxic work environment. 

Volpi succeeded the long-serving John Neumeier a year ago.

Summary dismissal is hiughly unusual in the upper reaches of German arts.

Volpi, 39, is an Argentine with German nationality.

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