Banish all scenic expectations. There is no Sant’Andrea della Valle, Palazzo Farnese or Castel Sant’Angelo. Kušej plunges the action under a deep blanket of snow in a dystopian wasteland, a brutal clerical fascist police state. ... Scarpia’s ‘palazzo’ is a dilapidated caravan, where he listens to gavottes on his transistor radio. The signal that marks Angelotti’s escape comes not from a cannon but the rattle of a machine gun. ... Albrecht saved this production at the last minute... and conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, who play fantastically. ... this is not the finest Tosca you will ever hear, nor the most opulent one you’ll ever see … but it’s possibly the one you’ll most remember.  Mark Pullinger