 In time, she owned a theatrical agency, the Roberts Lyceum Bureau.She founded the Boston Ideal Opera Company (later known as "The Bostonians") in 1879, with Adelaide Phillipps and Myron W. Whitney among the cast members.Her company presented American operettas, popular operas such as "The Bohemian Girl" and "The Marriage of Figaro", and the Gilbert and Sullivan favorite "H.M.S.