Opera in Scotland Isles incident). Non-Scottish based operas by Davies include Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, Kommilitonen!, The Doctor of Myddfai, Cinderella and Resurrection. Davies died in 2016. Another major composer, with a questionable Scottish background is Judith Weir. In 2014 she was appointed Master of the Queen's Music, following on from Davies and becoming the first woman to hold this honorary role. Weir is of English birth, but Scottish heritage, and has worked both north and south of the border. She has used Scottish material in her opera, "The Vanishing Bridegroom". Commissioned by the Glasgow District Council, the opera was premiered by
Judith Gough served as such till she was released of her post early 2013. She then became FCO's Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In September 2015 Gough was appointed Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Ukraine. Gough is openly lesbian and raises two children with her partner, Julia Kleiousi. Judith Gough Judith Mary Gough CMG (born 8 November 1972) is a British diplomat and the current Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Ukraine. Gough was educated at the University of Nottingham (BA German and Russian, 1995) and at King's College London (MA War in Modern World, 2012). She then worked