His actual education was taken over by Julius Stockhausen, who designated Cabisius for concert singing.
But he was encouraged to use his beautiful appearance and the power of the organ for the stage and so he tried his hand at the Stadttheater in Mainz in 1867.
In 1873 Cabisius followed a call to the municipal theater in Szczecin where he worked as a darling of the public for three years.
Then he appeared as "Hans Heiling", "Vampyr", "Templar", "Holländer", "Tell", "Don Juan" etc.
on the stages in Lübeck, Danzig and Prague (inaugural role "Tell"), until he took over the direction of the Stettiner Stadttheater in 1886, after a successful artistic wandering life, where he had been working as a singer at last.