 Her roles included the Nurse in Richard Strauss's "Die Frau ohne Schatten" and several in contemporary works by Hans Pfitzner and Alban Berg.In 1933, she sang Orpheus in Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice" for Sadler's Wells Opera.At Covent Garden she sang every year from 1933 until 1939, when the theatre closed at the outbreak of war.