Born in Rome, studied with the soprano Isabel Gentile and improved his lieder  repertory in the "Mozarteum" in Salzburg and in the "Musikhochschule" in Cologne with Hartmut Höll.
After specialising in ancient and baroque music, he usually collaborate with Fabio Biondi (recording Caino by Scarlatti that won Diapason d'or, first modern performance of  SS. Trinity by Scarlatti recordered by Virgin and four operas Massimo Puppieno, The triumph of honour, The faithful Princess and Charles King of Germany at Theatre Massimo in Palermo, concert at Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris singing La Senna festeggiante by Vivaldi and opera Lucio Silla by Haendel in the Academy of S. Cecilia in Rome) and with Rinaldo Alessandrini (The unhabitated isle by Jommelli with Rome’s Opera , The fighting between Tancredi and Clorinda recording for Opus 111 won “Choc de l’annee 1999” and performing in Paris, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Bruxelles, Köln, Oslo, Tokyo, Kyoto, Singapore, at Colon in Buenos Aires, in S. Paolo in Brazil and in Madrid).
In Italy he has collaborated on several occasions with the Symphonic Orchestra of RAI, Academy of S. Cecilia in Rome, Musical May in Florence.
He sang operas and concerts in Monaco, Lyon, Nice, Lisbon, Barcelona, Bruxelles, Wien, Budapest, Lincoln Center in New York, Washington, Toronto, Mexico City, Istanbul, Taipei).
He has collaborated with conductors like  Myung Whun Chung, Charles Mackerras, Sergio Vartolo, Gabriel Garrido, Alan Curtis, Bruno Bartoletti, Simon Preston, Jordi Savall, Alberto Zedda, Vladimir Spivakov, Arturo Tamayo, Jonathan Webb, Lothar Konigs, Claire Gibault, Marcello Panni and directors like Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Gabriele Vacis, Tonino Conte, Marisa Fabbri, Maurizio Scaparro, Daniele Abbado, Giorgio Gallione, Pier’Alli, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Beppe Menegatti, Pierluigi Pizzi, Giancarlo Cobelli.
Very interested in contemporary repertoire Roberto Abbondanza has sung compositions by S. Barber e L. Bernstein (Arias and Barcarolles), L. Bacalov (Misa Tango, Estaba la madre), B. Britten (War Requiem), C. Boccadoro, S. Bussotti (The Rara Requiem at Fenice Theatre in Venice and Tieste Rome’s Opera), L. Dallapiccola (The Prisoner in Mexico City and Il volo di notte at Musical May in Florence , F. Donatoni (Alfred, Alfred), B. Maderna, F. Malipiero, E. Morricone, L. Nono, A. Pärt, G. Petrassi, M. Ravel (L’enfant et les sortileges), A. Schönberg (Serenade and A survivor fom Warsaw), I. Strawinskij (Pribautky and The flood) and first performances by M. D’Amico (Farinelli, the voice lost and Dannata epicurea in Palermo), J. Adams (The death of Klinghoffer in Ferrara), F. Del Corno (Orfeo in comics), M. Di Bari (Camera oscura in Venice), L. Francesconi (for RomeEurope Festival), C. Galante (for Massimo Theatre in Palermo), P. Glass (Songs of Milarepa in Perugia, In the penal colony in Turin, Milan and Genoa and The sound of a voice in Turin), H.W. Henze (Elegy for young lovers), J. Mac Millan (Parthenogenesis), M. Panni (Paride’s Judgement in Nice Opera), F. Pennisi (Tristan) and F. Vacchi (Les oiseaux de passage in Bologna’s Theatre and History’s bed  in Musical May in Florence).
He recordered with Emi/Virgin Classic, Opus 111, Naxos, Stradivarius, Tactus and Foné.

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