sentences:  She specialized in comprimario roles.She also studied in New York City with Anna E. Schoen-Rene, a student of Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Manuel Garcia.She was a member of Vladimir Rosing's American Opera Company in the late 1920s and made her debut as the Countess in "The Marriage of Figaro" on December 14, 1927 in Washington D.C.
  
  She made her Metropolitan debut on December 16, 1935, as Flora in Verdi's "La traviata", a role she sang 101 times with the company.