Róza Schodel

Rozália Schodel (29 September 1811 – 19 August 1854)

She made her opera debut in Pressburg (now Bratislava) in 1829 as Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz. From 1833 to 1836 she performed at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.

Starting in 1837, she performed in Pest, first at the Magyar Theatre, then at the National Theatre. Roles she performed in Pest included Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti, Linda in Linda di Chamounix by Gaetano Donizetti, Lucretia in Lucrezia by Ottorino Respighi, Norma in Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, Lady Macbeth in H.-A. Chélard’s Macbeth, and Leonore in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven.

She left Pest in 1840 after an ovation where an onion wreath was thrown at her feet, touring all over Europe. She returned in 1843 and performed her most important role in 1844, as Elizabeth Szilágyi in Ferenc Erkel's Hunyadi László.

Róza Schodel retired in 1843. She died on 19 August 1854 in Nyáregyháza.