Carlo Colombara (born 1964 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian operatic bass. He has sung leading roles in many major opera houses including Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy); the Vienna State Opera (Vienna, Austria); the Real Teatro di San Carlo (Naples, Italy); the Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy); the Royal Opera House (London, United Kingdom), and The Metropolitan Opera (New York City, New York, United States). 　　Colombara began his training at age twelve with piano lessons and began singing from age fifteen, studying with Paride Venturi in Bologna. In 1986 he won the prize for the best Italian singer in the G.B. Viotti competition and the following year he won the As. Li.Co competition in Milan. 　　  　　He then made his professional début as Silva in Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome, Italy). With Zubin Mehta conducting, he performed in an open-air production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot in the Forbidden City, (Beijing, China), which was recorded and broadcast worldwide. 　　  　　In recent years debuted the roles of Mefistofele of Arrigo Boito, Escamillo in Carmen , Don Pasquale the four bass roles in Les contes d'Hoffmann and Don Giovanni (Mozart). In 2012, he debuted the role of Scarpia in the opera of Puccini,Tosca in Prague and Parma. 　　  　　In the 2013, the year Verdi, Colombara has interpreted the Messa da Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, at the Southbank Centre for the Royal Festival Hall in London and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. 　　  　　In the 2014 debut in the new work of Kolonovits "El Juez" with José Carreras at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, participated of Simon Boccanegra in Piacenza and Modena, and celebrations of the great Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff at the Theatre of Sofia in 3 productions (Aida, Nabucco, Don Carlo) then it will still be Birmingham and London (Verdi's Requiem with the direction of Antonio Pappano. 　　  　　In addition to the operatic side, Carlo Colombara undertook on an intense activity as concert performer, performing more than many different times the Verdi's Messa da Requiem in cities such as Florence, Rome, London, Naples, Paris and Modena – the latter in memory of Luciano Pavarotti, with whom he appeared in the latest Requiem performed by the tenor from Modena.