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Trans-siberian Orchestra Tickets : The Orchestra Is Most Famous For Their Christmas Series Of Operas
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a progressive rock band founded in 1993 by producer
, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team.The band's musical style incorporates classical, orchestral, symphonic, and progressive elements into hard rock and heavy metal.
The orchestra is most famous for their Christmas-themed series of rock operas (Christmas Eve and Other Stories, The Christmas Attic, and The Lost Christmas Eve), for which they do an annual winter tour. They have released two albums that are not based around holiday themes (Beethoven's Last Night and Night Castle), but their "Christmas trilogy" remains their best-known work.
They are also known for their extensive charity work and elaborate concerts, which are complete with a full orchestra, a massive light show, lasers, dozens of pyrotechnics, moving trusses, video screens, and other effects that are synchronized to the actual music.
After another few years of touring, Night Castle, Trans-Siberian Orchestra's latest album, was released on October 27, 2009 debuting at #5 on the Billboard Charts and was certified gold in eight weeks. The two-disc set includes a version of "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, which was previewed live by the band during their 2004/2008 tours.
The first half is a rock opera about a seven-year-old child on a beach who meets a stranger from New York City who tells her a story that takes her all around the world a through time where she encounters various characters, many of which are based on historical individuals like Desiderius Erasmus.
The second half pays homage to Trans-Siberian Orchestra's influences. It also contains new versions of several Savatage songs as well as "Nut Rocker," originally by B. Bumble and the Stingers and previously made famous by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, featuring Greg Lake on bass guitar.
On July 8, 2010, O'Neill released an update on the Trans-Siberian Orchestra website stating that the orchestra is back in the studio recording a new album. No further details have been given.On November 1, 2010, Trans-Siberian Orchestra sent out an e-mail stating later in the month they would be giving away a free MP3 on Amazon of a re-recording of a favourite TSO song.
On November 22, 2010, it was confirmed that the song will be a re-recording of "Dream Child" from the 1998 album "The Christmas Attic". The song is only available in the United States.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra first toured in 1999, performing a handful of concerts in Philadelphia, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit. The next year, the two touring groups were formed, allowing the band to cover more ground in the short time frame during which they could perform their Christmas-themed music.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra has maintained the two-group format since then, and by the 2008 tour, both groups were on the road from the beginning of November to the first week of January.
The two touring groups are informally known as TSO East and TSO West, although these descriptions are not entirely literal. Before 2008, for example, TSO West historically played in Atlanta and Florida. Both groups have appeared in Midwestern cities such as Chicago and Indianapolis.
Shows on the orchestra's winter tour are divided into two acts. The first act is a narrated performance of most of the songs from Christmas Eve and Other Stories. In the second act, the band performs a mix of songs from their other albums. The first tour to promote Beethoven's Last Night tour in the spring of 2010 used a similar format, with a complete performance of Beethoven's Last Night followed by several songs from Night Castle.
In 2009, Billboard ranked TSO as one of the Top 25 Touring Artists of the past decade.Live shows are known for their extensive use of pyrotechnics, lasers, and lights synchronized with the performance, all of which takes 15 hours to set up.They are very famous for these concerts, which are critically acclaimed.
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