www.mvdaily.com, 09.07.2008

"... The assassin, Sparafucile, was credibly sung by the noble bass voice of Jacek Janiszewski from Poland, whose impressive timbre matched this sinister part perfectly...."

(Verdi "Rigoletto")

Opera Now, January/February 2007

"...The Polish Bass Jacek Janiszeski was a suitably dark-voiced Ivanov who, when he's not fiddling with cofins, doubles as the village klezmer fiddler..."

Review Opera, Magazine December 2006

"...She did, however, secure an expressive performance from the Polish Bass Jacek Janiszewski as Bronza, and she again adept at moving people..."

(Veniamin Fleishman/Dmitri Shostakovich "Rothschild’s Violin"
Dmitri Shostakovich/Krzysztof Meyer "The Gamblers")

The Independent, Liverpool, 29 September 2006

 "...When he's not mentally measuring up anyone he can imagine, even his wife, for a coffin, the central character, Yakov Ivanov (a robust portrayal by Jacek Janiszewski), plays the violin..."

The Times, Liverpool, 29 September 2006

"...The young cast, led by the nicely laconic Polish bass Jacek Janiszewski and the Russian mezzo Elena Gabouri as his dying wife, fleshed out the music’s yearning, its hopes and its fears..."

(Veniamin Fleishman/Dmitri Shostakovich "Rothschild’s Violin"
Dmitri Shostakovich/Krzysztof Meyer "The Gamblers")

"...The lively ensemble that exhaust the expressive potential of the music convinces on whole line..."

(Mozart "Le nozze de Figaro")

"...Jacek Janiszewski formed the blind King Arkel into a reflection of touching helplessness..."

(Debussy "Pélleas und Mélisande")

"...Klimek can rely on a theatrically outstanding Bielefeld ensemble that keeps up the concentrated choreography with discipline and thus provides excitement during a work in which little appears to be happening..."

(Debussy "Pélleas und Mélisande")

"...Dramatically and vocally brilliant singers shape this production into a splendid – if also oppressively somber - whole..."

(Debussy "Pélleas und Mélisande")

"Singers are a world unto themselves"

Bielefeld. His first musical career ended when he was 11 years old. He was happy about that. The second musical career ended when he was 21. That was a real disaster. His third is still going on. Jacek Janiszewski, born in Warsaw, is a singer. The 37-year-old bass has been a new ensemble member at the Bielefeld Theater since this season. He is currently singing in the operas Die Entführung aus dem Serail, The Maid of Orleans, and Nabucco...

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"You must open up completely"

Bielefeld (WB). He has read Hesse in the original for two years. But Jacek Janiszewski also speaks and sings in flawless German. That was not always the case. When the bass began his first engagement at the regional theater in Flensburg in 1997 after his vocal studies at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, he understood practically nothing....

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"...The young Polish bass Janiszewski [is] vocally brilliant as the religious fanatic father, Thibaut..."

"...the entire ensemble displays exuberant joy in emotionally expressive singing...."

(Tschaikowski "The Maid of Orleans")

Westfalen-Blatt, 27 December 2005

"...In Jacek Janiszewski, one hears a dark, 
demonically tinged Thibaut...."

(Tschaikowski "The Maid of Orleans")

"...Jacek Janiszewski plays and sings an Osmin with tremendous charisma, brilliant in his role as the security boss, which was meant for him, full of vocal power and expressiveness...."

(Mozart "Entführung aus dem Serail")

"...With his intelligently projected, lean bass-baritone, Jacek Janiszewski gave Osmin, outfitted as a modern gangster boss, dignity and stature...."

(Mozart "Entführung aus dem Serail")

Westfalen-Blatt, 5 December 2005

"...The patriarch is just as polished and refined as his bodyguard Osmin (Jacek Janiszewski, with a warmly voluminous and richly facetted bass)...."

(Mozart "Entführung aus dem Serail")

Neue Westfälische, 5 December 2005

"...Jacek Janiszewski is new in the ensemble and proves to be a tremendous, powerful-voiced addition...."

(Mozart "Entführung aus dem Serail")