Sarah Laulan is an award-winner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Geneva Competition. Before embracing a career as a contralto, she was trained in drama theatre. She achieved her tuition at the Queen Elizabeth Chapel,  with such artists as José Van Dam, Helmut Deutsch, Larissa Gergieva, Waltraud Meier, Bernard Fink, Ewa Podles. She follows the guidance of Jocelyne Dienst, Marianne Pousseur, Janina Baechle et Brigitte Fassbaender.

​

She sang at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Toulouse, Liege, Strasbourg, Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier, Massy, Metz, Rouen... such roles as Maddalena (Rigoletto), Carmen, Olga (Evgeny Onegin), Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos), La Maestra delle Novizie and La Suora Zelatrice (Suor Angelica), Suor Pazienza (Mese Mariano by Giordano), Mrs Quickly (Falstaff), Federica (Luisa Miller), L’Opinion Publique (Orphée aux Enfers), La Périchole, Totoche (Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde), Mistress Bentson (Lakmé), Gertrude (Roméo et Juliette), The Innkeeper (Boris Godunov) and Hannah (Die Passagierin).

​​

In the contemporary field, she toured with the Berlin-based ensemble "Nico and the Navigators" and also performed original works by Martin Matalon, Matteo Franceschini, Michaël Levinas, Marc Bleuse, Dai Fujikura, Matteo Franceschini, Fabian Fiorini, Isabelle Aboulker at the Paris Philharmonie, the Opéra de Lyon, Hamburg and Berlin.

​

She took part in stagings by John Turturro, Eric Ruf, Michel Fau, Olivier Py, Jorge Lavelli, etc. and sang with such conductors as Daniel Oren, Kirill Petrenko, Patrick Fournillier, Giampaolo Bisanti, Paolo Arrivabeni...

​

From the Capitole in Toulouse to the Concertgebouw in Brugge, she regularly sings recitals (with piano and chamber music ensembles). Concert-wise, she sang Mahler's Second Symphony and the Kindertotenlieder, Brahms' Alto Rhapsody, De Falla's El Amor Brujo and Siete Canciones Populares, Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Eté and Respighi's Tramonto.

​

After her first recording Les Blasphèmes with pianist Maciej Pikulski and Hermès Quartet (label Fuga Libera), she recorded the Zwei Gesänge by Brahms with Lise Berthaud and Eric Lesage, Le Diable à Paris with Les Frivolités Parisiennes (both for the label B Records), an Art-Song opus named SANGS with Elodie Vignon and Offerings by Benoît Mernier (both for label Cyprès).

​

A complete artist always aiming at reaching new audiences, she also sings chanson and jazz recitals, she writes and performs her own music-theatre pieces together with with Rémy Poulakis (recorded for the label Chante et tais-toi), she regularly gives masterclasses of theatrical interpretation for singers (Brussels Royal Conservatoire) and since 2021, she is a member of the jury for the Bell'arte International Competition. Besides, she writes poetry and is published by 'La Tête à l'Envers' and 'Des Rues et des Bois' publishing companies. Her next opus will be published next Spring by 'Laure & Amon'.

​​

During season 2026-2027, she sings the part of the Auntie from Peter Grimes at the Capitole in Toulouse and Gertrude from Roméo et Juliette in Saint-Etienne. Sarah is continuing the tour of her young audience production, La Montée des Zoos. Alongside various concerts, she will perform in recitals with Elodie Vignon and with ensemble Contrastes, sing Verdi's Requiem, Mahler's Lieder, De Falla's Popular Spanish Songs, and take over Offerings with the ensemble Sturm und Klang.

​