Helge Dorsch had the chorus, orchestra and soloists fully under control. He conducted not only expressively with a great deal of enthusiasm, lively, precisely and well balanced, but he also filled every single bar of the opera with great empathy and passion.
WESTFALEN-BLATT

Helge Dorsch knew how to bring out the real "Italianita", which was one of the main strengths of the entire performance.
MAIN-ECHO

Conductor Helge Dorsch chose pleasingly fluent tempi, but avoided other unexpected extravagances.
MÜNSTERLÄNDER ZEITUNG

Helge Dorsch skilfully brings out the variety in Verdi´s brilliant music. The chorus, too, sparkles under his direction.
OFFENBACH-POST

The orchestra under Helge Dorsch played with extremely sensitive dynamics, pointed rhythms, and the warm-heartedness which such exciting Italian music requires.
FRANKFURTER NEUE PRESSE / KULTUR

The "homecoming" at the Loreley rock attracted 8000 spectators in two days....above all, the stirring conducting of Helge Dorsch, who brought the dramatic power of Verdi´s score to full realization.
RHEIN-ZEITUNG/KULTUR

The overture was dramatic and lively from the start. Helge Dorsch conducted brilliantly, never losing sight of the dramatic context. The orchestra played from the side of the stage and not from the front. (Not easy for the conductor!). Dorsch conducted from memory to both left and right, providing the necessary sure-handedness for orchestra and stage. He led the famous prisoners´ chorus, not with the sugary sweetness which so often spoils it, but rather with impressive power and dramatic impact.
WESTFALISCHE RUNDSCHAU

From the conductor´s podium, Helge Dorsch united the soloists, chorus and orchestra into a homogeneous whole. WESTFALENPOST, August 8, 2001. The overture promised good things to come. The vitality and freshness of the musical articulation, and the individual tone-colouration, as well as the handling of dramatic contrasts, were most convincing…a differentiated and lively interpretation.
GRAFSCHAFTER Nachrichten

Helge Dorsch (conducting from memory), supreme, spirited, and sensitive to the fine nuances, had the musical apparatus well in hand. The orchestra sounded full and played rhythmically under his clear, motivational coordination.
DIE RHEINPFALZ

From the beginning, the chorus and orchestra of the Loreley Festival made a particularly refreshing impression.
NRZ DÜSSELDORF

Helge Dorsch´s conducting provided the soloists with enough freedom for expressive development … a supremely fine orchestra.
BONNER GENERALANZEIGER

Helge Dorsch mastered the difficult task of wiping the tarnish off the score and returning to the slender dimensions of the original. This was the ideal way to bring out the so often neglected fairy-tale aura of this opera.
OFFENBACH-POST

The orchestra never intruded unnecessarily into the foreground, seeing its role as accompanying the drama on the stage.
FRANKFURTER NEUE PRESSE

The orchestra conscientiously followed the direction of conductor Helge Dorsch. He beat the proper tempi and evoked many fine details from the score.
BREMER NACHRICHTEN / KULTUR

Under the direction of Helge Dorsch, the orchestra displayed many faces. Sometimes soft and sensitive, then again thunderous and powerful, but always with perfect intonation and precision.
MAIN-RHEINER AKTUELLE NACHRICHTEN

Musically speaking this "Magic Flute" was very sophisticated. Conductor Helge Dorsch and the orchestra remained unobtrusive and sensitive in sound, very close to the music Mozart wrote in the fullness of his compositional powers … enthusiastic applause.
KÖLNISCHERUNDSCHAU /KULTUR

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