She 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.

The following year, she made her official stage début as an opera singer at Drottningholm Palace Theatre in the part of queen Myris in the opéra-comique Arsene by Monsigny in 1779, when she was given a contract as premier actress.

Her debut has been described: "In a small insignificant role in Arséne a young German, Franciska Stading, was heard for the first time, and came to conquer an important place in the history of the Swedish theater with the sweet and modest pleasantness, the simplicity and lack of vanity, which characterized her song and acting",[1] and Marianne Ehrenström commented about her that "Her dark eyes could touch even a stone.

She 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 (1786), the title role of Frigga by Åhlström (1787), and the female lead of Ebba Brahe in Gustaf Adolph och Ebba Brahe by Vogler and Kellgren (1788).

[5] One of her greatest successes was reportedly the part of Antigone in Oedip i Athen by Sacchini (1800), in which she, according to Malla Silfverstolpe, displayed "the mild innocence and also the heroic dé-vouement which all the sweetest of female characters possess", which Skjöldebrand described from Paris in 1810: "I saw the opera Oedipe this evening... and found with a certain patriotic pleasure that it was better in Stockholm, contributing primarily to the great advantage of Karsten in song as well as action ... and also the truth, the touching impression, in which Antigone was previously performed by mamsell Stading.

[8] 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.