 In 2011 David Pountney was appointed to succeed Fisher as chief executive . He had worked with the company since the 1970s , most recently on a 2006 The Flying Dutchman with Terfel which was set in space . In 2013 he programmed a trilogy of operas set in Tudor England : <unk> 's Anna <unk> , Maria <unk> and Roberto <unk> , with another trilogy the following year , on the theme of fallen women – <unk> 's <unk> <unk> , <unk> 's Boulevard Solitude and Verdi 's La traviata . For 2016 Pountney scheduled another trilogy , this time on the theme of Figaro , consisting of Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro and Rossini 's The <unk> of Seville and a new work , Figaro <unk> a Divorce with music by <unk> Langer and libretto by Pountney . 
