If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And who could doubt that the chorus of Welsh National Opera has got it, and then some?

Whether it was Bryn Terfel as Hans Sachs standing, head bowed, before their soul-shaking Wach’ Auf in Die Meistersinger, or singing of such virtuosity (in last season’s Moses und Aron) that it won them awards in their own right, the WNO Chorus has been the focus of some of the company’s supreme moments in recent years.

Chorus! is an evening-length revue comprised of choruses: Va, Pensiero, the Spinning Chorus and the Humming Chorus just for starters.

David Pountney has taken it a step further, creating a basic narrative around the idea of community versus individual, played out in shades of red and black on basic but striking sets by the late Johan Engels.

Lesley Garrett provided the solo star power. Kinder to pass over her singing in Verdi’s Rataplan and Offenbach’s Barcarolle, because her on-stage charisma, plus her willingness to be winched into the flies aboard a giant pair of lips, remains undimmed.

The quality of the choral singing goes without saying; as for the staging, Pountney’s loopiest flights were the most effective.

Carmen became an hilariously campy spoof of red-carpet culture; the orchestra under Alexander Martin really let rip in an extract from Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth.

And that was the main problem of an entertaining evening. Bleeding chunks of Shostakovich, Peter Grimes, The Rake’s Progress, Mahagonny and Candide simply remind us of how long it’s been since we’ve had any of these pieces in Birmingham, and just how gloriously WNO would do them. Please, any chance?