high priest in the temple of the metropolitan opera in new york is ryan speedo green, starring in rossini'sed the hall with a voice that reaches from bass to baritone. ♪ ♪ >> pelley: at age 33, he is a member of the vienna state opera, and performs on stages of the world in german, french, english and italian. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> pelley: some call his sound a gift. but that sells short the life of struggle, and the sacrifices of others, that lifted him to the high altar of success. >> ryan speedo green: i lived in a trailer park. and then i lived in another low-income housing, where there was a crack house next to me that produced drugs for the city. >> pelley: life at home with your mother and your older brother? >> green: it was tough. you know, i had a lot of issues. and a lot of anger problems. it was a lot of explosions of anger, frustration, that was going on at the time. >> pelley: explosions of anger were hard for us to picture in the genial man we met at the met. but 20 years before, green and his brother were being raised by an abusive mother, and he returned that abuse. too violent for fo