If so Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney may have just the show for you.

They are bringing The Ghosts of Ruddigore to the region, performing at Thirroul on September 23, Bundanoon on September 29 before a six-night run at North Sydney on October 5, 6, 7,12,13 and 14.

The Ghosts of Ruddigore, an hilarious parody of Victorian melodrama features professional bridesmaids, a character who converses in biblical verse and a village called Rederring.

Some great larger-than-life characters are in the show, including a villain who carries off a maiden; the primly perfect heroine; a hero in disguise; a snake in the grass and a ‘fraid’ of ghosts!!

Good becomes bad – and bad becomes good in the village of Rederring.

Rod Mounjed is musical director and Dean Sinclair director, while Wollongong soprano Kate Wilmot plays the lead role of Rose Maybud.

Kate has an interesting story of her own, having emigrated to Australia from South Africa 10 years ago with her husband and two daughters.

She's sung at weddings that were in Zulu and grew up with censorship, where they were only given books and allowed to listen to music that didn't promote harmony.

She studying music in Johannesburg and holds Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand.

She was a principal artist for Spier Arts Trust and Broom Hill Opera London in the Spier Opera Festival collaboration in Cape Town (2001) and was also a principal artist with Roodeport Promusica Opera in Johannesburg.

She has been a soloist with a number of South African orchestras and choirs premiering and recording new works for Soprano, Choir and Orchestra.

One of these works, Gloria for Soprano, Choir and Orchestra (2008), was written for her.

Since relocating to Australia in 2009, Kate has performed numerous concerts for organisations including the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation, Artsong NSW, Arts Bundanoon, the Southern Highlands Opera Appreciation Group, Classical Concert Series in Austinmer and Church on the Mall concert series in Wollongong.

Kate performed Mozart’s Requiem (2012), Vivaldi’s Gloria (2013) and Faure’s Requiem (2017) as the soprano soloist for the Illawarra Choral Society.

In 2014 she was a member of a small ensemble in Puccini’s La Bohème, produced by Opera New England, Armidale.

She has also been a participant in the Mietta Art song Competition Master classes (2014), played the role of Juno in Rockdale Opera’s production of Orpheus and the Underworld, July (2016) and Ludmila in Rockdale Opera’s production of The Bartered Bride, November (2016).

In April 2017 Kate was a soloist for Rockdale Opera’s Gala Opera Concert which featured Opera Australia’s Emma Matthews and José Carbo as guest artists along with the Rockdale Opera Company ensemble.

She performed the role of Fiametta in Rockdale Opera’s midyear 2017 production of The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan and was a guest artist at the Illawarra Choral Society’s 70th Birthday Celebration Concert in Wollongong Town Hall.

She also had the role of First Alms Sister in Rockdale Opera’s production of Suor Angelica in November 2017.

After premiering on January 21, 1887 at the Savoy Theatre in London, The Ghosts of Ruddigore ran for 288 performances.

The story follows Robin Oakapple, a shy, upstanding gentleman farmer who is desperate to ask the lovely Rose Maybud to marry him.

But he hasn’t the courage!

The truth is he hides a dark secret; he is the heir to a curse on all Baronets of Ruddigore and has been living in disguise to escape an evil fate.

But the truth is discovered.

And Robin is forced to obey the family curse that dictates he must commit a felony every day – or face a lingering death!

How will he ever win Rose and return to a tranquil, virtuous life on the farm?

The Ghosts of Ruddigore will be performed at Anita’s Theatre Thirroul on Saturday, September 23 at 2pm and the Soldier's Memorial Hall, Bundanoon on Saturday, September 29 at 2pm and 7.30pm.

For bookings go to info@gsosydney.com.au