Daniela Bechly was born in Hamburg, and gained her Opera/ Lieder and Oratorio Diploma at the Hochschule für Musik. She won first prize in the 1980 Hamburg Singing Contest, and was a finalist of the Belvedere International Opera Competition Vienna in 1984. Daniela was awarded a Masefield Scholarship in 1984. She was Second Prize Winner in the Bordeaux Festival International des Jeunes Solistes and won the Robert Stolz Prise, Salzburg in 1988.

Daniela made her debut with the Braunschweig Opera. Subsequent engagements were with the Vienna Kammeroper, Krefeld- Mönchengladbach and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and these were followed by a year as guest artist at the Stadttheater Bern. Since then, she has established her career as a lyric soprano in opera houses throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland, before coming to live in the UK.

Major operatic roles include Cherubino/ Susanna; Le Nozze Di Figaro, Donna Elvira/ Zerlina; Don Giovanni Sandrina; La Finta Giadiniera, Ännchen/ Agathe, Der Freischütz, Pamina; Die Zauberflöte, Anna; Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Rezia; L’Incontro Improvviso, Gretel; Hänsel und Gretel, , Cordelia; Lear (Reimann), Ghita; Der Zwerg (Zemlinsky) and Kristina; The Makropulos Case(Janaček)

Further roles have included Goose Girl; Königskinder (Humperdinck)  Malvina; Der Vampyr (Marschner) at the Wexford Festival, Wellgunde ‘Götterdammerung’ with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Cherubino; Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, and Agathe; Der Freischütz at the Zwingenburg Festival, Heidelberg; Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust for Opera South, the Mother in Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck, a Pimlott Foundation production in February 2015