From 1829, she attended Giuseppe Siboni's conservatory, continuing to receive instruction from him until his death ten years later.

[1] She was given her first singing role at the Royal Theatre when she was just 14, where she played the part of a young bride in Marie.

The same year, she married the violinist Hans Sophus Simonsen after which her career was inhibited as she gave birth to several children.

[3] In the 1840s, as Italian opera became increasingly popular, she excelled in works by Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini and Verdi.

[1][2] Her daughter Ernesta Felicita Simonsen was mother to Gerda Christophersen, an actress and theatre director.