Bust of Rosalie Schodel

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This is a statue of Rosalie Schodel who was a singer born at Klausenburg in 1811 and died around the year 1850. Born in Klein, she received her first musical lessons from Herr Schodel, whom she later married, at just 14 years old, and moved with him to Bratislava. On stage for the first time ever, Rosalie appeared publicly in a concert organized by Violoncellist J. Wagner, who later became an artist and musician in Pesth. From Prussburg, she went to Vienna for more education and made such great progress at the Conservatory that she soon got hired at the Kärnthnerthor Theater. But not long after, she left the same place and sang on several stages in Germany, then to Paris and London, where she received applause everywhere. She arrived in Pesth in 1836, gave guest performances in the German theater, but these were interrupted by theater intrigues, so she left Pesth, and moved back home with her father. But when asked nicely by the Pest National Theater, she changed her mind and joined the Hungarian society in Pesth, whose heroes she soon belonged to. For seven years, from 1836 until 1842, she was part of the art institute, which contributed a lot to the Hungarian opera over its many years of activity, so that in the annals of the Hungarian opera, it would keep a permanent place. The defining feature of her skill as an artist was combining the qualities of Hungarian nature with those of German art and German art education. With an impressive outer appearance, she combined an expressive face, a clear, sweet voice. A critic called her voice, which was perfect for powerful characters, aptly an "Eumenides-organ" - great passion and strong imagination. Traits that suited them perfectly for playing heroic roles. Light, simple roles were not part of their repertoire. From their performances, the following stand out: Fidelio, Norma, Romeo, Macbeth, Lucretia Borgia, and the role in Erkel's "Hunyadi László" of national opera Elisabeth Szilágyi. When she sang Norma in 1840 at the time of the Prussian Landtag, she got recognition from the Prussian Landtag Youth for her artistic achievement, and as a reference to her masterpiece as a "Norma", a silver, heavily gilded, decorated with 209 mostly Hungarian stones, was bought by the son of the deceased in 1860 and handed over to the Pest National Museum.