She had a coloratura soprano voice, but also appeared in Wagner's stage works, including the first complete performance of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival in 1876, playing one of the Rhinemaidens.

[1] The roles in her broad repertory included Mozart characters such as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio, Leonore in Flotow's Alessandro Stradella, and Christine in Ignaz Brüll's Das goldene Kreuz,[1] premiered in Berlin in 1875.

Her roles included further Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma and Antonina in Donizetti's Belisario.

[2] She appeared in operas by Verdi, as Gilda in Rigoletto and Desdemona in Otello, and as Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Sieglinde in his Die Walküre.

[2] She created two roles, Wellgunde the Rhinemaiden and Waltraute the Valkyrie, in the first complete performance of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen[2] at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival from 13 to 17 August 1876.