She was a dancer with the Vienna Imperial Opera Ballet until she gave birth to her son, Clemens Krauss, at the age of fifteen.

[1][2] At the age of six, Krauss was sent to study ballet at the Vienna Court Opera's dance school.

[2] From 1890 to 1892, she was a member of the corps de ballet, and eventually she was promoted to the role of principal ballerina.

[3] She studied singing under Rosa Papier and became a celebrated guest on performance tours in Graz, Cologne, Essen, Hermannstadt, and Olmütz.

[1][4] When Krauss was fifteen, and working as a dancer at the Imperial Ballet, she had an affair with Chevalier Hector Baltazzi, a member of a wealthy Greek-Austrian banking family and the brother of Baroness Helene von Vetsera.