Many have praised her beautiful alto voice, her looks, her talent for recitation and her expressive glance.

On 15 March 1848, she met the writer Mór Jókai at a performance of József Katona's The Viceroy.

The opponents of the marriage were reconciled when Laborfalvi saved Jókai's life during the revolution of 1848/49.

[citation needed] On 3 September 1857, the newly built National Theatre of Miskolc opened with her guest performance and Jókai's speech.

Gertrudis (The Viceroy); Volumina (Shakespeare: Coriolanus); Mary, Queen of Scots (Schiller); Lady Macbeth (Macbeth); Goneril (King Lear); Orsina (Lessing: Emilia Galotti); Lady Milford (Schiller: Intrigue and Love).