Austrian soprano Donata Meyer-Kranixfeld began her musical education at the age of seven in Brussels. In 2012, aged fourteen, she moved to Salzburg to deepen her vocal training.
In 2014, Meyer-Kranixfeld entered the vocal preparatory programme at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, studying with Albert Hartinger. In December 2015, she appeared as soprano soloist in Cantatas I–IV of Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with BachWerk Brussels under Matthew Carver. She began her Bachelor’s degree in Voice at the Mozarteum in 2017, studying with Bernd Valentin, and sang in the choruses of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann. In 2019, she served as assistant to the director for the world premiere of Nils Urban Östlund’s children’s opera Pippi Langstrumpf and appeared as soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elias at the Stiftskirche Berchtesgaden under Elke Michel-Blagraves.
After completing her Bachelor’s degree in June 2021, she made her role debut as First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Kai Röhrig and directed by Alexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka. She began a Master’s degree in Opera and Music Theatre at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in October 2021 with Kai Röhrig and Rosamund Gilmore. Her roles at the Mozarteum included Diana and Venus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt in December 2021, Luçieta in Wolf-Ferrari’s Il campiello in May 2022, the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in January 2023, and Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in December 2023. In parallel, she began a Master’s degree in Lied with Pauliina Tukiainen in October 2022 and appeared as soprano soloist in Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony at Salzburg Cathedral under Jörn Andresen in May 2023.
In March 2024, Meyer-Kranixfeld sang the soprano part in Verdi’s Requiem at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles with the choir BachWerk Brussels, conducted by Clio Zois. She completed her Master’s degree in Opera and Music Theatre in June 2024 as Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, in a production directed by Florentine Klepper. That year, she also sang Echo in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Richard-Strauss-Tage Garmisch-Partenkirchen and performed Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder at the Haus für Mozart under the baton of Ion Marin. She completed her Master’s degree in Lied in June 2025 and has continued her vocal training with Prof. Allison Oakes since then.