Aslam Safla

Baritone Aslam Safla hails from Réunion Island. He studied violin and, at the age of sixteen, began singing. After relocating to Tours, France, he performed as a singer and musician in professional bands and even in a circus. In 2016, he embarked on his classical singing studies, training with Jean-Francois Rouchon and participating in masterclasses. In 2020, he was accepted into the Haute École de Musique (HEMU) in Lausanne, where he studied with Leontina Vaduva. His first significant role came in 2021 when he portrayed Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte in a co-production with the Opéra de Lausanne, Opéra de Fribourg, and HEMU.

Aslam Safla won First Prize in the „Voix des Outremer“ competition at the Opéra Bastille in 2020 and reached the final at the „Nuits Lyriques de Marmande“ in 2023. He made his professional debut in 2022 at the Opéra de Lausanne, in the role of Johann Werther. He then performed as Belcore L’Elisir d’Amore and Mars Orphée aux Enfers, in a production by Olivier Py. The same year he made his role debut as Papageno Die Zauberflöte, a role he is reprising in the 2025-2026 season in France and Spain. In 2024 and 2025, he took on the role of Zuniga Carmen in Switzerland and Morocco, and is scheduled to return to Switzerland in 2026 for Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra de Lausanne. This season, he will also perform the title role in the new opera Charles le Téméraire by Jimena Marazzi in Switzerland.