At the Deutsches Theater, Berlin she was among the cast that supported Josef Kainz in an 1896 revival of Lupaci Vagabundus, or the Good-For-Nothing Clover Leaf, a farce by Johann Nestroy.

[5] After some additional musical training, the following year she joined the Grand Opera, Poznań (then part of the German Empire) performing in Les Huguenots, Hänsel und Gretel, The Geisha, and as Hadvig Ekdal in Ibsen's The Wild Duck.

[4] In 1900 Abarbanell had success in the title role of a German language adaptation of Seymour Hicks and Harry Nicholls's A Runaway Girl at the Neues Königliches Opernhaus.

[8] After honing her language skills Abarbarbanell made her English-speaking debut at the Garden Theatre on Christmas Day, 1906, as Lisa in the musical comedy The Student King.

[9] In March 1907 she began a tour in The White Chrysanthemum,[10] but left by the end of the month following a dust-up over a dressing room issue with co-star Edna Wallace Hopper.

[13][14] After a successful national tour in The Merry Widow, Abarbanell replaced Elgie Bowen as Nellie Vaughan in the romantic musical The Love Cure at the New Amsterdam in October 1909.

Her most popular endeavor during this time was probably as Mademoiselle Martinet in The Grand Duke, a comedy by Sacha Guitry that was produced by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre.

(1907)[23] Politische Plaudereien (1908),[24] and Briefe an den Deutschen Kronprinzen (1908)[25] Goldbeck died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1934 at their residence in the Hotel Somerset on West Forty-Seventh Street, New York.