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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