Opera Australia artistic director Lyndon Terracini has ruled out making major changes to the company’s presentation of classic works, in his first public comments after a “yellowface” controversy embroiled OA in February.

A patron of OA’s reprisal of Puccini’s Turandot at Sydney Opera House, Vietnamese-Australian lawyer Cat-Thao Nguyen, told The Sydney Morning Herald at the time that she and her Chinese-Canadian husband had been offended by the use of white singers to play the Chinese ministers Ping, Pang and Pong.