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Eleonora Abbagnato, the Italian of the Paris Opera

2021-06-11T00:58:13.126Z


PORTRAIT - His farewells were scheduled for December 2020. They finally took place on Thursday and will be repeated this evening at Garnier in the Roland Petit program, his mentor. Return on the course of a star dancer with a mind of steel.


His life is a novel and it will soon even be a documentary.

In Italy, she is a star.

She presented the Sanremo Festival on RAI, turned into a hit comedy and directs the Rome Opera ballet.

In France, she is finishing her career as a prima ballerina tonight.

With her almond slit eyes and long golden hair, Eleonora Abbagnato has the face of Giotto's Madonnas.

But she confesses that her most beautiful role is that of the courtesan Marguerite Gautier, the lady with the camellias.

As a partner, this beauty married Federico Balzaretti, one of the best left-backs in Italian football.

They have two children, Julia, who starts dancing, and Gabriel, who kicks the ball.

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Mamma mia!

“, She slips like a refrain throughout the evocation of her career, which began in her native Palermo.

My mother ran a clothing store below a dance school.

I spent my time there.

The teacher had trained a lot of dancers for the Palermo ballet.

She was pushing me

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Source: lefigaro

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