Eleonora Abbagnato

Född 30 juni 1978 · Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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).