Opera Chic

Josh Groban Sings Kanye West's Tweets

(Photo: NY Daily News)

Yo Groban, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish. Monday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live featured Josh Gro-BAHN in the performance of a lifetime. Groban set Kanye West's non sequitur tweets (Classical music is tight yo, I make awesome decisions in bike stores, French fries are the devil, etc.) to piano in a fake CD compilation called, "Josh Groban's The Best Tweets of Kanye West." This one's got Grammy written all over it. Go for the gold.

(OC follows OMGosh's tweets, but a big thanks to an awesome reader in San Francisco!)

A Jazzy Start to The New York Philharmonic's New Season

 

Last night, the New York Philharmonic inaugurated their 2010-11 season with an opening night gala at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Alan Gilbert led the orchestra in the USA premiere of Wynton Marsalis' Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3), Strauss' Don Juan, and Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. Marsalis was on hand with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for his new work.  

Lots of NYC socialites -- rounded out by Josh GRObahn and Alec Baldwin (in Zenga) -- welcomed Gilbert for his second year as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. 

The Voice of Gawd Parties in West Hollywood

 

Over the weekend while you were lounging in your pajamas with your hand stuck in a box of Cap'n Crunch, Josh Groban [a.k.a. the voice of Gawd + all the Seraphs in the heavens] was in West Hollywood drinking beer and macking on the ladies at Sarah Silverman's book launch.

30 Rock's Jack McBrayer and Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane were all sweating Groban's Urban Outfitters Holga T-shirt. (So who wore it better?) 

Can you handle Groban? We didn't think so...

 

Groban with a secksy side order of Garry Shandling.

Josh Groban Has Magical, Teleporting Powers

Because the good Lawd only knows how Josh Groban teleported to my Granddaddy's house in Palm Beach, raided his closet, and took his favorite gray sweater. Magic man.

Josh was paparazzi-snapped on August 30th at the 2nd Annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, an open-air music festival held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, which is actually a flimsy excuse for a bunch of college kids to litter, loiter, and do lots of drugs while blazing to bands that we all thought were long defunct.

Josh, Grampy called and he said he left a handful of liquorice allsorts in the left pocket, and if you dare touch them he'll beat you with his ivory cane. He's a very important man in the Palm Beach Contract Bridge League and he will not stand for chicanery.

Long Live Nerdcore!

Josh Groban is hot. Hot like something straight out of a Copley portrait. He's got an 18th century je ne sais quoi. Let's get busy like Paul Revere!

OC's inner geek comes out when she sees nerdcore leader Groban, and there's nothing nerdier than Groban posing with Dave Grohl, front man of Foo Figheters, and former drummer of (the obviously defunct) Nirvana. In case you didn't know, Grohl is responsible for of one of the funniest pictures on the internets of all time for his candid background antics at the MTV awards.

Josh Groban and the Dame

This weekend, Josh Groban and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa were in downtown Los Angels for the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame 10th Anniversary concert. The two ~opera singers~ were inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame, and were joined by conductor Thomas Wilkins, Frederica von Stade, John Williams, and some other randoms. The two inductees posed below:

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Click the link below for more photos from the event!

Josh Groban is Intoxicating

A couple months ago, we pegged him as ~the biggest nerd on earth~, but Josh Groban has managed to outdo himself.

Alongside the predictable CDs, DVDs, mugs, and T-shirts stamped with Groban's likeness, his official webstore sells a "JG Beverage Helmet" for $29.99.

Kitschy and ironic, it's the perfect accompaniment for American Apparel leggings and Ray-Bans -- and we can totally see all the hipsters wearing these at the lyric baritone's next pOpera concert, sipping Pabst Blue Ribbon between drags of Lucky Strikes, and screaming for him to sing some Guided by Voices as an encore.

Josh Groban, You are Officially the Biggest Nerd on Earth.

Out for 2009? Insecure opera divas, vain & oozing with ego (like the Alagnas) In for 2009? Humbler, self-deprecating stars who can gleefully make fun of themselves (like Natalie Dessay). Josh Groban, crossover pOpera star & nerdiest dork ever, took it one step further, and collaborated with Tim & Eric Awesome Show in a brief self-parody, "Gro-bahhhn Sings Casey".

Lady In Red: Renée Fleming is a Flash of Warmth in Frigid Washington

On Sunday, January 18, 2008 for the "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration", Renée Fleming looked on as Stevie Wonder snacked on a harmonica.

She also belted it out of the [Lincoln Memorial] park with her reheated vocals, taking the stage with the US Naval Academy Glee Club for Rodgers & Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone." OC is proud that her hometown diva was plucked among the contenders to represent the ~opera star~ constituency at such a historical event. Go Renée go! Rub those red cashmere shoulders with Barack Obama...damn!

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Josh Groban, the unrequited lusty nerd idol of middle-aged housewives, was also in attendance, making the ladies trill in their panties. o yeah.

Ready 4 Primetime Crossover Stars: Groban & Chenoweth

Not that we endorse corny, cranked-out award shows, but we couldn't help notice some of America's Greatest Popera Crossover Stars making their way down the red carpet for tonight's 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, happening right now at the Los Angeles NOKIA Theatre.

Above & below is scruffy Josh Groban (posing above with D-Lister Kathy Griffin), who knows how to work the carpet. omg heh.

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(omg it's Kristin Chenoweth!)

Groban Lets One Rip

When it comes to pOpera crossovers, we're as dismissive as the rest -- like, Katherine Jenkins, Garðar Thor Cortes and Charlotte Church can all ki$$ our a$$e$ if they're not giving us schadenfreudey moments to blog about -- but for some inexplicable reason, we've always held a soft spot in our ♥s 4 Joshua Winslow Groban. (but please do not quote this when OC runs for political office).

Yeah, the same Josh Groban who went on the Kimmel show last year and sang The Panda Sex Song. (NSFW??)

Here is a recent paparazzi shot we found of Groban, with his new BFF P. Diddy (aka Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy), who is cringing something extraordinary. ok, who farted?