Trans-Siberian Orchestra performing at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas on December 20, 2018.
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra (often abbreviated to TSO) 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.Setlist for the show at the Frank Erwin Center
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 also released two rock operas that are based on historical themes (Beethoven's Last Night and Night Castle).
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.
- Night Enchanted
- Winter Palace
- The Lost Christmas Eve
- Good King Joy
- Christmas Dreams
- Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)
- Christmas Canon Rock
- What Child Is This?
- Music Box Blues
- First Snow
- Promises to Keep
- This Christmas Day
- A Mad Russian's Christmas
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / The Three Kings & I
- Wizards in Winter
- TracersCarmina Burana
- Someday
- Chance
- Madness of Men
- Find Our Way Home
- Requiem (The Fifth)
- Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) (Reprise)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra was the main act at the Frank Erwin Center. The band continues across the United States with the last stop at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 30, 2018.
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