Opera Australia’s Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini has allegedly ordered Daily Review critic and Deputy Editor Ben Neutze be removed from the company’s complimentary media ticketing list, according to a report by Daily Review’s Editor Raymond Gill titled Opera Australia Chief Bars Daily Review.

Described by Gill as a “Trump-style executive order”, the removal of Neutze from Opera Australia’s media list comes after Neutze published several articles critical of OA and Terracini’s management of the company. One piece published in February, entitled Inside Opera Australia: Foreign Singers Favoured While Creative Teams ‘Disrespected’, summarised recent controversies that have swirled around Opera Australia, including Heldentenor Stuart Skelton’s criticisms of the company’s use of “second-rate” international artists and the anger of members of Carmen on the Harbour’s original 2013 creative team who were not invited to be involved in this year’s revival of the production.

In Neutze’s review of Carmen on the Harbour – while giving the production a broadly positive three and a half stars – he berrated Opera Australia for changes to the production, particularly the final scene. “This new ending shows a misunderstanding of the vision informing this production, and great disrespect to the original creative team,”...