UPDATED: Opera Australia is yet to confirm whether Tamar Iveri has been released from all future productions with the company.

The OA website still lists the Georgian singer as the lead cast member in Tosca, which runs in Melbourne from November 12 this year.

When asked if Iveri would be dropped from all productions, a spokeswoman said: “We are following the same due process we worked through on Otello. We are not in a position to comment further at the moment.”

The singer, who described gay protesters as “fecal masses”, has been sacked from the company’s production of Othello, which opensin Sydney next week.

“Opera Australia believes the views as stated to be unconscionable,” the company said in a statement today.

While they said Ms Iveri had “unreservedly apologised for those comments and views”, she had still been removed from the production.

“Opera Australia has agreed with Tamar Iveri to immediately release her from her contract with the company,” the statement said.

Iveri’s comments in a Facebook post 18 months ago — in reaction to a gay rights parade where many protesters where injured — including “cancer metastases need to be removed in the beginning of the process ... tomorrow they will demand same-sex marriages”.

There was a storm of protest from people on social media over the weekend, including a number of gay patrons of Opera Australia who said they would refuse to attend the Australian performances she appeared in.

In a long statement on Facebook this afternoon, Iveri said she was “immensely saddened and hurt by the campaign” against her.

“I have never been prejudiced against anyone, whether for religious or racial reasons,

or for any other kind of prejudice including those regarding sexual preference. I abhor prejudice in any form altogether.”

She previously wrote another post outlining her version of the gay parade last year that led to the controversy.