Isabelle Kabatu

Isabelle Kabatu (born 1970) is a Belgian operatic soprano with a father from Belgian Congo

She was a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in May 1992. Kabatu was ranked 12th out of 12 finalists, and two years later, in 1994, she won first prize in the Viotti Competition. That same year, she made her operatic debut in the title role of Verdi's La traviata in Lisbon. Since its creation, this workshop has produced about ten operas, often with orchestra.

Kabatu won the in Hainaut Province, Belgium, in 2003. She sang Aida in Rome in 2005 and there met the tenor Placido Domingo, with whom she often collaborated. In September 2012, she played the role of Léonor in the world premiere of Franck's Stradella at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.

Recordings Dolly in E. Wolf-Ferrari's Sly ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato, Munich, Koch International, 2001 (2 CDs, recorded in 2000), alongside José Carreras Aida, in Verdi's opera, conductor Léonor in César Franck's Stradella, conductor , direction Jaco Van Dormael, DVD label: Dynamic Carmen in Bizet's Carmen, Festival of Avenche

Venus in Wagner's Tannhäuser conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, Zürich, 2004 (2 DVDs EMI, 180 minutes) Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Munich, Sony Music Entertainment, 2009 (3 CDs and a leaflet, recorded in Graz, Helmut-List-Halle, Austria), conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt