At the Lyon Opera, she performed contralto roles in Gluck's Orphée et Euridice, Carmen, Amneris in Aida, and Azucena in Il trovatore.
On 24 February 1906 at the Monte Carlo Opera, she played Vanina at the première of Saint-Saëns' L'ancêtre.
On 30 November that year, she played the Third Witch in the première of Ernest Bloch's Macbeth and on 15 December 1911, she created the role of Lia in the first performance of Albéric Magnard's Bérénice.
[3][2][4] Charbonnel appeared in the principal opera houses in the French provinces as well as at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Her most important roles were in Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice, as Mother in Gustave Charpentier's Louise, as Mary in The Flying Dutchman and as Pygmalion in Victor Massé's Galathée.