GALA CONCERTS (ITALIAN NIGHTS):
Maestro Helge Dorsch, I appreciate your HIGH MUSICAL PROFESSIONALISM. You are an extraordinarily musical and singer-friendly conductor!
- Sandra Schwarzhaupt
”THE JOY OF MAKING MUSIC KNEW NO LIMITS!” Under the baton of Helge Dorsch
The orchestra surpassed itself with exuberant temperament and scintillating precision.
(Headline ”Rheinspitze” 27/12/21)
HELGE DORSCH conducts the Gala Concert on 25 December, 2021
Maestro Dorsch, what a fantastic concert!!!Congratulations!
- Lázaro Calderón
It was great to work with Helge Dorsch, he is such an inspiring and fantastic conductor!
- Elena Lyamkina
Helge Dorsch is certainly one of the best, most fascinating and brilliant conductors of our time. I am very much looking forward to working with him!
- Sonora Vaice
RICHARD WAGNER GALA:
The great Richard Wagner Gala Part 3:
HELGE DORSCH conducts the RIENZI-OVERTURE
listen and enjoy! https://youtu.be/Jui4bl5bGoI (whole)
https://youtu.be/Cc_Euznm_5Q (excerpt)
I must tell you that listening to your Wagner overtures has been magnificent!! magnificent! Your work is extraordinary and unique I'm most impressed and deeply moved.
- Comments: Jon F. West, New York Metropolitan Opera
The Rienzi Overture is unbelievably unique in the way that you do it. It combines the profundity of the German soul with the italianate traits of Bellini and the building up to climaxes is nothing less than spectacular.
Das ist sehr bewegend! Die Dynamik bringt das prachtvolle Stück voll zur Geltung! Wunderbar!
- S. Mika
Bravo, un splendido concerto di musica di Vagner Maestro eccellente!!!
- Sonora Vaice
A piece like this can only be conducted by a through and through Maestro, which seems to be the case here! Great playing under Helge Dorsch!
- Sandra Calderón
This is fantastic Maestro! Great Orchestra and a great Maestro. You gave the orchestra the freedom to sound although you were in control of everything. It is just astonishing. Goosebumps!!!
Thank you for sharing! Congratulations!
- Peony Rhubarb
Wonderful Music played so beautifully! Amazing Maestro Dorsch is a great Conductor. I had the chance and the honour to prapare and sing wonderful Roles with him from Mozart to Wagner. Would really love to sing again under his conduction.
The conductor works out the contrasts perfectly
- Martina Bortolotti von Haderburg
I must tell you that listening to your Wagner overtures has been magnificent!! magnificent! Your work is extraordinary and unique I'm most impressed and deeply moved.
The Tannhäuser Overture is unbelievably unique in the way that you do it. It has the monumental greatness combined with the finest nuances and delicate tones and your building up to climaxes is nothing less than spectacular.
- Jon Frederic West
施涵尹
A real fantastic concert! A great conductor, a great orchestra. I really enjoy listening to it, every time more! Congratulations to this outstanding recording. 一场真正精彩的音乐会！伟大的指挥，伟大的管弦乐队。我真的很喜欢听它，每次更多！祝贺这次出色的录音。
lmayo
Breathtakingly EXCITING and beautiful!
The best & most brilliant interpretation ever!
Bravissimo per questa interpretazione
- muhammedya
Exciting how the bombastic climaxes are built up!
- Mert Cetin
Finally Wagner’s erotic side is revealed!
- Oğuz Atik
HELGE DORSCH IN REHEARSALS:
WONDERFUL AND VERY INSPIRING REHEARSALS WITH HELGE DORSCH
Working with a conductor like Helge Dorsch was not only a pleasure but also a huge learning experience!
I feel very happy to have been able to learn so much and to have been able to perform my role under the direction of a unique and fantastic conductor.
Thank you Helge for having made my interpretation grow so much artistically, I will see you, I hope so, very soon!
Luchi de Gyldenfeldt, Buenos Aires, 19 July, 2024
Trabajar con un maestro como Helge Dorsch no fue solamente un placer sino una experiencia de aprendizaje enorme! me siento muy feliz de haber podido aprender tanto y de haber podido interpretar mi rol bajo la dirección de un MAESTRO único y fantástico.
Gracias Helge por haber hecho crecer artísticamente tanto a mi interpretación, nos veremos, asi lo deseo, muy pronto!
Abrazos...y Hokus Pokus!
Luchi de Gyldenfeldt, Buenos Aires, 19/07/24
与赫尔格·多尔施这样的指挥家一起工作不仅是一种乐趣，也是一次巨大的学习经历！
我很高兴能从一位独特而出色的指挥家那里学到很多东西。
感谢 Helge 让我的歌唱在艺术上得到了如此大的发展，我希望很快能再次见到你，我也希望，不嫉妒，许多其他歌手可以从你丰富的知识、经验和音乐天才中受益。
Luchi de Gyldenfeldt，布宜诺斯艾利斯，2024 年 7 月 19 日
OPERA FESTIVAL BUENOS AIRES:
Director Musical: Helge Dorsch
Don Giovanni” a BUENOS AIRES en noviembre de 2021: Sensacional Estreno!!!!
”Don Giovanni” in BUENOS AIRES in November 2021: Sensational Opening night!!!!!
Nuestro Estimado Director HELGE DORSCH
Quien demostró nuevamente su Energía y Sabiduría en el Escenario dirigiendo la Maravillosa Orquesta y Músicos !!!!!!!
- Vivi Ruiz Mazzeo
Our highly appreciated Director HELGE DORSCH, conducting the fantastic Festival Orchestra, has once again demonstrated his energy and his great feeling and empathy for the opera stage.
Realmente Brillante Maestro
Helge Dorsch!!!
Un Genio el Maestro!!!!
Really Brilliant Maestro HelgeDorsch !!!
This Maestro is a Genius!!!!
HELGE DORSCH conducted the highly acclaimed Opening Night of Puccini`s "TURANDOT" in BUENOS AIRES on October 19, 2023 in the completely sold out TEATRO AVENIDA receiving Standing Ovations.
Maestro HELGE DORSCH once again demonstrated his musical genius, comitment, passion, power and empathy in interpreting this wonderful opera "Turandot". The result is a highly admirable interpretation. Maestro Dorsch managed to touch the fibres of the audience that was noticeably moved. He managed to do this from the beginning to the end so that this masterwork, under his direction, became pure musical poetry and achieved to lift our spirit and our souls. Bravissimo Maestro Dorsch!
- by Vivi Ruiz Mazzeo, 21 October, 2023
Maestro Helge Dorsch demostró nuevamente su genialidad, amor, pasión, fuerza y sabiduría en ésta maravillosa ópera Turandot. Es admirable! Ya que bajo su dirección llega a tocar las fibras más íntimas de las personas que se emocionaron muchísimo. El hace desde el principio hasta el fin. Que ésta bellísima obra se convierta en poesía pura con música y nos eleva el alma. Bravissimo Maestro Dorsch!
- Viví Ruiz Mazzeo, 21 de octubre de 2023
The incredible work of its music director HELGE DORSCH is notable, he potentiated the sound of the orchestra and led it to a powerful performance. Destacable el increíble trabajo de su director HELGE DORSCH potenciando a una orquesta de poderosa performance.
- Gabriel Rabinovich, 30 de octubre de 2023
Director Musical: Helge Dorsch
Don Giovanni” a BUENOS AIRES en noviembre de 2021: Sensacional Estreno!!!!
”Don Giovanni” in BUENOS AIRES in November 2021: Sensational Opening night!!!!!
Nuestro Estimado Director HELGE DORSCH
Quien demostró nuevamente su Energía y Sabiduría en el Escenario dirigiendo la Maravillosa Orquesta y Músicos !!!!!!!
Our highly appreciated Director HELGE DORSCH, conducting the fantastic Festival Orchestra, has once again demonstrated his energy and his great feeling and empathy for the opera stage.
Realmente Brillante Maestro
Helge Dorsch!!!
Un Genio el Maestro!!!!
Really Brilliant Maestro Helge Dorsch !!!
This Maestro is a Genius!!!!
- Vivi Ruiz Mazzeo
LOHENGRIN Vorspiel (Prelude) conducted by HELGE DORSCH
Heavenly!!! Very beautifully conducted and played!
Ethereal and heavenly
The Sound of the Soul: Congratulations to the successful recording. One of the best recordings of this work.
This man should conduct in Bayreuth!
Comparable with Berlin Philharmonic!
Magnificent! This interpretation rises to a heavenly, sublime and unearthy beauty. I am deeply impressed
Great! This conductor is a genius!
This interpretation is absolutely unique and transcendental. A big compliment for conductor Helge Dorsch!
This conductor is a magician
Maestro Helge Dorsch’s interpretation of the “Flying Dutchman”:
Excellent is an understatement.
Bravissimo for him and the Orchestra!
Helge Dorsch achieved to do Magic in his conducting.
He brought out Wagner’s overwhelming power and the incredibly fine subtleties of the score at the same time.
Only very few great conductors have managed to combine these two totally opposite character traits of Wagner.
Vivi Ruiz Mazzeo, Buenos Aires
Helge Dorsch holds the opinion that our humanity plays an essential role in artistic expression. "It is the human aspects which are manifested in the end-products of creative activity, including music. You cannot express harmony through music without a harmonious atmosphere among the performing artists." To this purpose, Helge Dorsch tries in every production to set an appropriate tone in working with the ensemble. This holds true as well for the orchestra rehearsals. He does not think much of dictatorially demanding compliance: experience shows that an orchestra will naturally react to such measures, but will seldom be motivated to cooperate intuitively. With this attitude, he has so far managed not only to be well accepted by all the orchestras he has worked with, but also to achieve thoroughly optimal results, which the critics seem almost unanimously to recognize. The problems encountered by some conductors, with whom orchestras have even gone so far as to refuse to work together, are foreign to Helge Dorsch.
Dorsch has some interesting ideas about music and especially about opera. Using the example of "The Magic Flute", he says, "Many conductors, when dusting off some older works, make the mistake of wiping off the magical dust as well. That would not be doing justice to the work. To properly interpret older works, it is not enough to listen to the CDs currently on the market and compare the various approaches, One must devote intensive study to the score. This involves becoming familiar with the performance practices of the time. Each musical work is composed in a certain time, which is why it is so important to understand the historical context, Take for example Leopold Mozart's "Violin Method". It contains everything one needs to know about Mozart interpretation. The same can be said for Johann Joachim Quantz' "Flute Method" or for "The Masterful Kapellmeister" by Johann Mattheson."
Dorsch seems to be something of a memory genius. He can quote Leopold Mozart by heart, "A contrapuntal structure must be composed in such a way that the human ear is able to follow it. But what usually happens nowadays? The Allegro of the "Magic Flute" overture is often so hectic that no one can perceive the structure. It is reduced to a mere external effect, a flourish: the musical kernel is dissipated." Using Karajan as an example, Dorsch says, "He was a genius both as a musician and businessman. He understood that the public wants to be deceived, so much of his work is like a culinary dish, prepared to taste, with the bitter parts sweetened. What is left is often little more than an opulent morsel, such as his "Carmen" recording, Compared to the Interpretation of Pretre, who conceived the work, so to speak, as a delicate etching, much as the composer actually intended, Karajan's interpretation seems like a swirling oil painting, And which version sells better? The oil painting, of course, the beautiful deception, rather than the hard, plain truth."
Helge Dorsch is an opera conductor to the core, rejoicing in each new challenge, and appreciated equally by vocalists and instrumentalists for his thorough preparation. He feels much understanding for singers. He considers it almost indefensible that the tuning pitch "A" has risen since the time of Verdi from 432 Hertz to 445 Hertz and higher. A high "C" one hundred years ago was nothing similar to the high "C" of today. For singers, the highest notes have steadily become more difficult, almost to the point of torture. For example, the highest note for the Queen of the Night under today's most extreme standards could be an "F sharp" , whereas it was likely a minor third lower in Mozart's day, sounding like a modern "E flat". Therefore it is only logical that one can scarcely find singers with the properly dramatic voices for this role anymore, only coloratura soubrettes can actually manage such extreme heights. The lower voice types have also been similarly affected. It is rare lo find a truly "black" bass voice, a true mezzo or a deep contralto as of old, because the low tones have changed in character as the pitch has risen. In this context, Dorsch is reminded of an anecdote. In Ankara, the tenor in "Don Pasquale" complained to him at intermission about the orchestra's "A". He had been having trouble with his high notes, Dorsch told him he would take it up with the orchestra. In fact, he forgot, but the psychological effect was enough. The tenor outdid himself with perfect high notes. Afterward, he expressed thanks for the apparent technical assistance.
Helge Dorsch would rather not limit himself to one specialty. Many German conductors are quickly consigned to pigeon-holes as Wagner or Strauss specialists. Dorsch wants to remain open to other directions, an attitude possibly influenced by a love for languages similar to his love for music: he currently speaks eight languages fluently. This helps enormously with his engagements all around the world, especially in communicating with orchestras, With that kind of attitude about his career, Helge Dorsch should be a force to reckon with for the next several years.