Eleonora Abbagnato began her dance training in 1990 at the Formation à l'Académie Princesse Grâce in Monaco and then at the Centre Rosella Hightower in Cannes.
In 1992 she entered l'Ecole de danse de l'Opéra.
She entered the POB Corps de ballet in 1996, became coryphée in 1999, sujet in 2000 and finally in 2001 première danseuse.
Repertoire includes: Princess Florine in Sleeping Beauty, Gamzatti in La Bayadère, Henriette and Clémence in Raymonda(Nureyev), Marie in Clavigo, Esmeralda in Notre-Dame de Paris (Petit), Titania in Midsummer Nights Dream, title role in Sylvia (Neumeier), Anastasia in Ivan le terrible (Grigorovitch), Myrtha in Giselle and Kitri in Don Quixote (Nureyev).
Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007. Petit's earlier production for the Ballet de Marseille used more realistic stage sets, but the current Paris version has minimal stage sets. Also, the costumes were redesigned. Roland Petit created a ballet based on "In Search of Lost Time" for the Ballet de Marseille in the 1970s. Petit's intention was not to make a faithful adaptation of the novel, but to capture its flavour and convey, through a number of selected scenes, the narrator's incessant fluctuations between happiness and torment. The highlights are the series of poetical pas de deux.