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Music: Prom Of The Week

Sunday 29 August 1999 00:02 BST
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Glyndebourne's annual visit - semi-staged, without the sets of a full show - is never more than a token of what you'd get in Sussex. With Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande that's a real loss, because Paul Brown's spectacular (if de trop) designs are its USP - housing the action in a grand salon whose spiral staircase and Perspex floor (lit from below through carpets of flowers) make an amazing visual impact. Stripped bare for the Albert Hall it will probably look lost and vague. But then, lost and vague is the traditional way to do Pelleas. Whatever survives of Graham Vick's production, you'll get diverting performances from Richard Croft and Christiane Oelze in the title roles, plus a tumultuous Golaud from John Tomlinson, who gives the part such a Wagnerian dimension you can only wonder where he's left his spear. Andrew Davis (above) conducts the London Philharmonic. Get there early. Monday 7pm

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