Subsequently Sorisio continued to teach Miss Cabell; he prepared her for her auditions for various music schools and public performances.
During this period of time the Center's then-director, Richard Pearlman, famous soprano and Director of Vocal Studies Gianna Rolandi, and opera legend Marilyn Horne were her mentors.
She made her Royal Opera House début at the Barbican as Princesse Eudoxie in a concert performance of Halévy's La Juive, on September 19, 2006, conducted by Daniel Oren.
[5] During the 2012 festival season at the Santa Fe Opera, Cabell sang the role of Leila in Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers.
Her first recording, released in 2006, was of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, conducted by John Mauceri, while her first solo recital album, Soprano, is of arias in French, Italian and English.
It was released in 2007 and received two awards: the Georg Solti Prize Orphée d'Or 2007 by the Académie du Disque Lyrique for a promising recording career[7] and The Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice in May 2007.
[8] She sang the title role in the 2007 recording of Donizetti's Imelda de' Lambertazzi for Opera Rara, conducted by Mark Elder with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
She appeared in a filmed version of Puccini's La Bohème as Musetta for Deutsche Grammophon, alongside Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bertrand de Billy.