But seeing his students excel both in judo and academics is the best reward, said Canto.
But in frequent recitals and concert performances the bel canto tenor also includes Peruvian and Latin American music.
The project lost its sponsorship soon after, and Canto was the only one to continue training the children.
It would be interesting to see how this production of "Elisir" would work with more persuasive bel canto singers.
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"Das Liebesverbot" ("The Ban on Love, " 1836) translates Shakespeare's misanthropic comedy "Measure for Measure" into a kind of Teutonic bel canto.
The concert in his memory included performances by Cheung's friends like canto pop singer Jacky Cheung, Karen Mok and Leo Ku.
Although Canto has spent most of his adulthood mentoring favela kids, he said he did not always know how to help.
The Scotsman then overcame Flavio Canto of Brazil to take the bronze.
Microsoft has teamed up with a Hong Kong record label to record a Canto-pop anti-piracy anthem, which is played on local radio.
Since 2000, Canto's institute has grown to four locations throughout Rio.
But while volunteering in a government-sponsored judo training project in 2000, Canto said he realized that sports were a powerful tool to change people's lives.
But for Canto, the long-awaited achievement wasn't just a personal victory.
But with a circulation of 10, 000, it was virtually unknown outside of the circle of people who can tell the difference between a canto and a couplet.
Local TV and radio stations have reported that the Canto star, whose most famous role was in the Oscar-nominated Farewell My Concubine, was found dead on Tuesday.
Canto said the institute teaches the values of discipline, humility, courage and determination through judo -- Japanese for "gentle way" -- and applies them to other activities.
Indeed, the ensembles, which are key in this opera, often sound muddy and unfocused, and Maurizio Benini, the conductor, did a pedestrian job without supplying any bel canto lightness.
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Diego Cardoso dos Santos, 21, credits Canto and his judo training for earning him a scholarship to attend a private university and for helping his 11-year-old brother, Joao Victor, heal.
His "Altro Canto 1" (2006), a 10-part dance to selections of 17th-century music by Claudio Monteverdi, Biagio Marini and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, which opened the Joyce bill, was a case in point.
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The story, set in Lisbon, concerns Eloi (Henrique Canto e Castro), a paunchy middle-aged man, who finds Samuel (Dinis Neto Jorge), a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea.
It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.
Tina has four standout arias, tracing her awakening to life and feeling after years in the shadows, as the Lodger seduces her to get access to the papers. (Their a cappella duet at the end of Act I is an ingenious piece of writing.) As Juliana, the fierce Alexandra Deshorties slipped easily from embodying the young opera diva, warbling bel canto-style coloratura, to the old crone.
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