When she went to Italy, she was taught by Emma Molajoli (who also trained Nunù Sanchioni) in Milan and she later sang with the conductor Tullio Serafin in Naples.

[1] In 1934 the producer Ben Fuller attempted to establish an English language grand opera company in Australia.

He had the Australian soprano Florence Austral and Phillips in his company and their operas included Il trovatore, La bohème, Rigoletto, Faust, Lohengrin and Die Fledermaus.

In 1941 and 1945 she sang songs by Edith Harrhy at two recitals and in 1947 she began her own Thea Philips School of Opera but it did not last long.

Phillips married Robert Alfred Clement Pike in 1916 and they had three sons before they divorced in 1935.