The Sunday Preview: Opera & Concerts

Simon Holt Premiere (Albert Hall, 071-823 9998, Tues). Walking with the River's Roar, a quasi-concerto for viola and orchestra, is an elegy for Holt's father. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic.

Dream of Gerontius (St Paul's Cathedral, 071-248 4260, Weds). Elgarian spirituality with the Philharmonia.

Roger Steptoe Premiere (Fishguard School Hall, 0348-873612, Weds). Life's Unquiet Dream - a cantata for the Shelley bicentenary (d 1792).

John Tavener at the Proms (Albert Hall, Thurs). See Show People, page 23.

Cleveland Orchestra at the Proms (Albert Hall, Fri-Sat). America's hottest orchestral property, with its conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi, and his wife soprano Anja Silja (Fri) in Weill's Seven Deadly Sins.