She achieved some popularity as a comic actress in the romantic drama genre.

Together they formed their own theatrical company at the Teatro de la Princesa.

[3] She performed works by contemporary Spanish playwrights such as Vital Aza, Miguel Ramos Carrión [es], Eusebio Blasco, and Benito Pérez Galdós (in a unique and controversial interpretation of his Doña Perfecta which premiered in 1896).

[4] She also staged works by Enlightenment Neoclassicists such as Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Henry Bataille, Victorien Sardou, and Alexandre Dumas, fils.

At age 37 she was named "Doctor in Dramatic Art" in a document published in 1891 and signed by José Zorrilla, Núñez de Arce, Campoamor, Emilio Castelar, and José Echegaray, among other journalists, politicians, and intellectuals of the era.