[1] At 13, she toured Europe with Roland Petit's The Sleeping Beauty, in the role of Aurora as a child.

[1][2] She was then admitted, after a private audition, to the École de Danse of the Paris Opera as a fellowship student.

[1][3] In 1996, at the age of 18, Abbagnato graduated and joined the corps de ballet of the Opera, where she made a rapid ascent: Coryphée in 1999, Sujet in 2000, Premiere Danseuse in 2001 and Étoile in March 2013.

[7] In 2012, she was the subject of a photographic exhibition with pictures by Massimo Gatti [it] that was held in Milan, Los Angeles, London and Miami.

[8] In 2015, Abbagnato was appointed director of the corps de ballet of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.