At the age of 16, on 7 July 1858, in the Church of Santa Isabel, Lisbon, she married António Pereira, a soldier born in the municipality of Lamego in the north of the country, who was 16 years her elder.

She then moved to the Azores where she stayed for a few years in Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island and received much appreciation in the drama Os Homem Ricos (The Rich Men), by Ernesto Biester [pt].

When Delfina do Espírito Santo left the theatre, she replaced her in the role of Queen Clementina in Bluebeard (1880), a burlesque opera in three acts with music by Jacques Offenbach.

Among her performances in this theatre, she appeared in O Homem da Bomba, a three-act vaudeville, and created the role of Zepherine, in the 5-act drama Dois Garotos (Two boys), by Pierre Decourcelle.

In 1898, she played Joaquina, in Falar Verdade a Mentir (Telling truth to lie), a comedy by Almeida Garrett, and appeared in Boccacio, a 3-act comic opera with music by Franz von Suppé.