Karina Sarkissova Penthouse - Photos

Karina Sarkissova Penthouse - The UK Telegraph reports that a ballerina has been sacked by the Vienna State opera after she posed nude despite being warned not to do it again.

Ballerina Karina Sarkissova has been fired by the Vienna Opera over the risque pictures that appeared in the magazine Photo: www.repubblica.it

The management of the prestigious institutions says solo dancer Karina Sarkissova was axed Aug. 23 after a series of provocative photos of her appeared in the September issue of the Austrian men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine “Wiener.”

A statement on Friday said she had already been reprimanded in May for nude shots that were taken in the opera house without permission and published in the June edition of “Penthouse.”

“She was fired on August 23 after this new publication,” Dominique Meyer, the opera’s director, said

“The ballet corps has been shocked by these new images which appeared in the sex section,” he added.

“On the cover of the magazine, you could read 'The ballerina nude, the ballet as we love it,’” he said.

Sarkissova is Austrian dancer of Russian origin. Born in 1983, she was trained at Russia’s famous Bolshoi Ballet and joined the Vienna Opera ballet in 2000.