In this photo taken on November 17, 2023 Marina Davydova, then director of Austria's Salzburg opera, theatre and music festival, speaks during the presentation of the new production of the play 'Jedermann' (Everyman) in Vienna. The Salzburg Festival said on November 28, 2024 it had sacked its director Marina Davydova, an exiled Russian playwright, over what it called unauthorised work at another festival. It had appointed Davydova as its drama director in late 2022, despite several cultural institutions across Europe barring Russian artists over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The festival said it had "terminated... Davydova's employment, effective immediately, due to a breach of her contractual duties, specifically her work at a theatre festival in Berlin that the Directorate... was not informed of and had not authorised". (Photo by TOBIAS STEINMAURER / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT (Photo by TOBIAS STEINMAURER/APA/AFP via Getty Images)