10 Facts About Franziska Stading

Sofia Franziska Stading was a Swedish opera singer of German origin.

Franziska Stading is referred to as one of the more notable opera singers in Sweden during the Gustavian era.

Franziska Stading was a Hovsangare and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1788.

Franziska Stading was born in Berlin in Prussia in Germany as the stepchild of the musician Josef Hummel, father of Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Franziska Stading appears to have been raised in The Hague in the Netherlands, and was reportedly at some point a student of Gertrud Elisabeth Mara in singing, and the pedagogue Graaf in music.

Franziska Stading performed in a concert arranged by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1778.

Franziska Stading performed leading roles in many of the new Swedish opera plays of the era, such as Margareta Wasa in Gustaf Wasa by Naumann with text by Johan Henric Kellgren, the title role of Frigga by Ahlstrom, and the female lead of Ebba Brahe in Gustaf Adolph och Ebba Brahe by Vogler and Kellgren.

Franziska Stading was appreciated in several French opera-comiques by Dalayrac and Gretry, such as Andromaque.

Franziska Stading performed with Christopher Christian Karsten, Elisabeth Olin and Carl Stenborg at the funeral of Joseph Martin Kraus in 1798.

In 1806, Franziska Stading retired from the stage with a full royal pension and left Sweden to settle in Dresden in Germany, where she died.