their parents weren't even allowed to buy an opera ticket, but now linda nteleza and thesele kemane areg hard to make classical music their ticket to a better future. see and hear for yourself. ♪ >> arias are her world. >> when i'm singing, i feel different, like a new me. >> linda nteleza studies opera in cape town.♪ so does 26-year-old thesele kemane, a promising bass- baritone. >> i grew up in difficulty. i grew up in poverty. there was a time that both my mom and dad didn't work. but they tried to make sure there was something on the table for us to eat. >> thesele was raised in a township -- like some one in four black south africans. high unemployment and lack of access to health care lead some here to turn to a life of crime. linda hasn't had it easy either. she's only able to study opera because she received a scholarship. she's the first one in her family to attend university. and she's studying at the renowned university of cape town. >> when i heard that the uct college of music took me, i was screaming my lungs out.>> 1, 2 -- ♪ >> scholarships are allowing more and more youn