The Lost Christmas Eve & the 2026 Winter Tour

If you came here looking for a Lost Christmas Eve tour, here is the honest answer: Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s 2026 winter tour is billed as The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More. The Lost Christmas Eve was the featured production on the 2024 tour, which celebrated the album’s 20th anniversary. It is not the headline production this year.

That does not mean the album disappears. The Lost Christmas Eve is the final chapter of TSO’s Christmas Trilogy, and its songs are live staples — the title track has opened recent TSO sets, and “Wizards in Winter” is one of the most reliable moments in the second half of any TSO show. The 2026 format pairs the Ghosts of Christmas Eve rock opera with a second set of TSO classics and rarely performed gems, which is exactly where trilogy material lives.

Every 2026 date is listed on this page, so you can still use it to plan. For the authoritative production details and primary tickets, go to the official TSO tour page at trans-siberian.com.

Released in 2004, The Lost Christmas Eve closed the Christmas Trilogy that began with Christmas Eve and Other Stories (1996) and continued with The Christmas Attic (1998). It follows several characters through Christmas Eve in New York City — among them a former rock star living on the streets and a lonely old man — whose stories intersect in ways the earlier albums never attempted.

It is the darkest and most structurally complex of the three, leaning into regret, redemption, and second chances rather than straightforward holiday warmth. “Wizards in Winter” became its unlikely breakout when a homeowner synced a Christmas light display to the track and the video spread widely; “What Child Is This?”, “Christmas Nights in Blue”, and “Siberian Sleigh Ride” are the other cuts fans tend to name.

Taken together, the trilogy has formed the narrative backbone of TSO’s touring career for more than two decades, which is why individual albums rotate in and out of the headline slot from year to year.

The 2026 tour opens Nov 19 in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and closes Dec 30 in Buffalo, New York and St. Louis, Missouri — 56 city dates over 28 tour days. Toronto on Dec 29 at Scotiabank Arena is the only Canadian stop.

Two cities share almost every date because TSO fields two complete touring ensembles at once, known as East and West, each carrying roughly 100 musicians, vocalists, narrators, and crew plus a full production rig. Both casts rehearse together in Council Bluffs before splitting to opposite ends of the country, which is why Council Bluffs shows up on opening night. They perform the same production, so choose on date and arena rather than cast.

2026 is TSO’s 30th anniversary. Al Pitrelli remains music director, continuing the production founder Paul O’Neill built starting in 1996.

Most markets host two performances in a day — a matinee and an evening show — and each date row above labels the slots that city plays. Fifteen dates are evening-only in the tour announcement: Council Bluffs, Wilkes-Barre, Nashville, Charleston, Fresno, Las Vegas, Allentown, Austin, Raleigh, Bossier City, Charlottesville, Birmingham, Albany, Jacksonville, and Sunrise.

Clock times are confirmed per venue rather than published tour-wide, so we label slots instead of inventing times. Historically TSO matinees have started near 3:00 PM local and evening shows near 7:30 or 8:00 PM — verify against your ticket and venue listing.

The show runs roughly two and a half hours with an intermission: narrative production first, then a greatest-hits set built around pyrotechnics, lasers, and the songs most people came for.

Work the official windows first. Fan Club members get in on Sep 10 (November dates) and Sep 11 (December dates); the Official TSO Pre-Sale on Sep 17 needs no membership and runs 24 hours; general on-sale is Sep 18. That ladder is where face-value inventory lives.

LostChristmasEveTour.com links to GoTickets, a resale marketplace, for discovery after those paths. TSO events are still being added to the GoTickets performer page, so until your city is listed the ticket buttons open the main Trans-Siberian Orchestra page rather than a specific date.

Read the marketplace terms before purchasing and compare all-in prices including fees, not just the headline number.

There is no single TSO ticket price. Market, arena, seat location, matinee versus evening, how close to showtime you buy, and primary versus resale all move it.

This routing pairs 20,000-seat buildings like Ball Arena, Little Caesars Arena, and Scotiabank Arena with far smaller rooms such as Covelli Centre in Youngstown and the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, so expect a wide spread. Check live listings when you actually buy.

Worth knowing regardless of where you buy: TSO has donated at least one dollar from every ticket sold to a charity local to that city since its first tour in 1999, passing $16 million to date.