Season 2, episode 22, of The Cleveland Show is titled "Hot Cocoa Bang Bang." The plot summary is as follows: "Cleveland takes the entire family to a comic convention in an attempt to sell his comic book, Waderman. While there, Donna is horrified to find out that Robert Rodriguez is screening a Blaxploitation film that she starred in when she was younger, and Cleveland Jr., tired of Comic-Con being a playground for Hollywood to peddle their projects, gathers a band of geeks together to take the Con back to its true origins." [Source] During one of the scenes the aria "La mamma morta," from Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier (sung by soprano Maria Callas), can be heard in the background. Listen to the remastered version of the aria sung by the soprano, after the jump. Watch the full episode here.
Anna Netrebko appeared on Ivan Urgant's Late Night Show in Russia to discuss compromising positions in which opera singers get themselves, her favorite popular music, friends and family, as well as what she does in airports without social media to pass the time.
Watch the soprano sing "La mamma morta" from Andrea Chénier and "Io son l'umile ncella" from Adriana Lecouvreur from the concert in Red Square. The complete concert with Dmitri Hvorostovsky can be seen here. More photos after the jump.
