Isabelle Kabatu
Isabelle Kabatu (born around 1970 in Montignies-sur-Sambre ) is a Belgian opera singer (soprano).
Life
Isabelle Kabatu studied singing at the Conservatory of Music in Nice with Jean Pierre Blivet . She won numerous international singing competitions: Pais, Bilbao, Clermont-Ferrand and Vervierst. In 1994 the artist was awarded the IST Prize of the renowned Giovanni Battista Viotti Competition in Varolla.
She made her debut in Lisbon as Violetta in La traviata . This was the beginning of a steep international career. She sang Bess in Porgy and Bess at the Houston Grand Opera, La Scala in Milan, at the Paris Opera and Tokyo .
The artist (s) guest at all major opera houses, u. a. in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Madrid, Rome, Zurich, Geneva, Milan, San Francisco, Barcelona, Moscow, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, Athens, Verona, etc. On these stages she embodied all the major roles in her field: Tosca, Madame Butterfly , Violetta, Aida, Manon Lescaut, Mimi, Venus, Leonora, Elisabeth von Valois, Salome, Sieglinde u. a. m. She worked with the great conductors of the time such as Yves Abel, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Michel Plasson, Nello Santi and Franz Welser-Möst.
The soprano is married to the director Stefano Giuliani . Together with her husband she founded the opera company Da Tempesta . This is intended to give young singers the stage experience they urgently need.
DVD
- Tannhäuser 2004 (Zurich Opera House)
CD
- Sly by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (2008)
- Porgy and Bess (2010)
Web links
- Works by and about Isabelle Kabatu in the catalog of the German National Library
- Isabelle Kabatu homepage
- Isabelle Kabatu at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Isabelle Kabatu at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kabatu, Isabelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montignies-sur-Sambre |