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As her career takes flight, the French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre talks to presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her love of baroque music, how her ballet training has influenced both her voice and stage presence, and the special musical alchemy that she experiences while collaborating with Thomas Dunford and the Jupiter Ensemble.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the late American composer Pauline Oliveros\\u2019 Sonic Meditations \\u2013 a series of text-based scores that instruct groups of people to practice \\u2018sounding\\u2019 and listening together \\u2013 Music Matters speaks to the improviser and saxophonist, Artur Vidal, and sound artist and researcher, Ximena Alarc\\xf3n ahead of a weekend of performances at Caf\\xe9 Oto in London. They describe how Oliveros\\u2019 works broke with the conventions that separate composer, performer, and audience, and discuss how her Sonic Meditations became the blueprint for the composer\\u2019s hugely influential Deep Listening school.

As China eases its Covid restrictions, Sara speaks to the Shanghai-based journalist Rudolph Tang to learn how the country\\u2019s classical music sector is returning to business after the pandemic.

And, during rehearsals for Richard Jones\\u2019 new production of Rheingold at English National Opera, Sara joins the musicologist John Deathridge backstage to hear more about his new translation of the first instalment of Wagner\\u2019s Ring Cycle. She asks the musicologist Barbara Eichner about the nuances of creating a convincing, contemporary translation of High German epic poetry, and is joined by ENO\\u2019s Head of Music, Martin Fitzpatrick, and music critic at the New York Times, Zachary Woolf, to discuss whether the enterprise of translating foreign language operas into an audience\\u2019s vernacular remains relevant.