Aflie Boe with Adele ONeill, the Llanelli Choral Society, Hywel Girls Choir and Hywel Boy Singers at Tabernacle Chapel, Llanelli.
Alfie Boe came, saw and conquered when he ventured into Llanelli, one of the heartlands of the Welsh choral tradition.
There was something of the rock star about Boes appearance cruising up to the chapel vestry at Tabernacle in a shiny blue Bentley limousine and taking the stage in T-shirt and cloth waistcoat.
Well, it wasnt so much of a stage it was a case of the first time Ive sung in a pulpit for the Lancashire singer who is the current holder of the unofficial Britains Most Popular Tenor title.
A pulpit may not be the best canvas to display years of stagecraft (even if Boe did attempt a tap dance at one stage!), but this concert wasnt about showmanship; it was all about the voice.
And, boy, what a voice.
There was a Neapolitan air to Boes first-half appearance with Tostis A Vuccella and Marchiare and Parlami dAmore by Bixio and Ghitarrra Romano by Lazzaro.
After the interval, Boe pulled out the guaranteed crowd-pleasers Some Enchanted Evening, On The Street Where You Live, If I Loved You, Hushabye Mountain and a wonderful duet with soprano Adele ONeill of Tonight from West Side Story.
Inevitably, the show finished with excerpts from Les Miserables. In Llanelli, Boe is known as the second most famous man to have played Jean Valjean: the first being Burry Ports John Owen Jones, of course.
Boes version of Bring Him Home was wonderfully expressive. But better than the John Owen Jones treatment? Its a close run thing.
On the choral side of the evening, it was no contest: The youngsters representing the Hywel Girls Choir and the Hywel Boys Singers comfortably put their older colleagues in the Llanelli Choral Society in the shade.
But on a night of many voices, one soared above them all to the heights of the Emmanuel on the ceiling of Tabernacle Chapel that of one Alfie Boe.