History Music / TransSiberianOrchestra

* TheMovie: ''The Ghosts of Christmas Eve'', a one-hour direct-to-video movie with an original storyline: A runaway teen girl takes refuge in an old theater, but the friendly caretaker (Ossie Davis) shows her some visions of its past (including, among other things, the music video for "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" and guest appearances by Creator/MichaelCrawford and Music/{{Jewel}}) to help encourage her to return to her worried-sick parents and reconcile -- just in time for Christmas Day.

* TheMovie: ''The Ghosts of Christmas Eve'', which boasted performances by Michael Crawford and Jewel and starred Ossie Davis as the caretaker of an old movie theater.
* TheScrooge: The older man in The Lost Christmas Eve, especially his song 'What is Christmas'.

* ''Christmas Eve and Other Stories'' (1996)

* OminousLatinChanting: Some of their songs have Ominous ''English'' Chanting. Examples include "Night Enchanted" (which covers [[Music/GiuseppeVerdi Verdi's]] Requiem in the first part) and "Who I Am". However, Latin chanting does indeed show up in "Requiem (The Fifth)" and "Carmina Burana", although the former's quite a unique example in that it's purely female voices, making it sound almost angelic.

* HeelRealization / HeelFaceTurn: The old man in ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' goes through this when he finally meets his son in person.

* OminousLatinChanting: Some of their songs have Ominous ''English'' Chanting. Examples include "Night Enchanted" (which covers Verdi's Requiem in the first part) and "Who I Am". However, Latin chanting does indeed show up in "Requiem (The Fifth)" and "Carmina Burana", although the former's quite a unique example in that it's purely female voices, making it sound almost angelic.

* BookEnds: In the written stories that accompany each album in TSO's Christmas Trilogy, the story begins with the Lord's youngest angel being sent on a mission to Earth. At the end of the story, the Angel returns to Heaven and presents the Lord with what he had found, and the Lord smiles at him in approval.

* {{Motifs}}: The band has a lot of them. In general, they tend to associate themselves with winter, castles, and tigers, but a lot of their songs have their own fixed motif that is featured in their live concerts.

** "The Marriage of Figaro": Light. It's one of their flashiest songs live, prominently featuring lasers and spotlight effects.

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a rock orchestra from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity conceived by Paul O'Neill in 1996. Their style mixes rock, metal and classical music into a famous sound almost anyone should recognize. All of their albums are rock operas and three of these (five albums in total) are Christmas rock operas. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters They have a lot of members.]] In total, there are three composers (four before the death of founder O'Neill in 2017), 20 vocalists, five guitarists, three bassists, two drummers, four keyboardists and three violinists currently playing with them, studio, live (in two touring groups, an East and a West) or otherwise. They have a legendary stage show because of their spectacular light shows, performing abilities and [[EpicRocking kick ass music]]. Despite being together for over 20 years, they've only released six albums, as their composers are known perfectionists. They delayed their album ''Night Castle'' for three years before it was finally released in October of 2009. While they would release the EP ''Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night)'' in 2012, their next full-length album, ''Letters From the Labyrinth'', would have to wait until mid-November 2015. They also delayed their second stage show, based on their ''Music/BeethovensLastNight'' album, for almost ''ten years'' before finally putting it on tour in spring of 2010. The stage show for ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' premiered in 2012, eight years after the release of the album.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 41 current members with 20 musicians as former members, arguably the largest band to hold major popularity.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: They are heavily known for their hardcore metal covers of classical pieces, yet they also created the very mellow, purely-orchestrated, children-sung "Promises to Keep". Though of course, there's also a powerful rock version that is sung live.

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a rock orchestra from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity conceived by Paul O'Neill in 1996. Their style mixes rock, metal and classical music into a famous sound almost anyone should recognize. All of their albums are RockOperas and three of these (five albums in total) are Christmas RockOperas. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters They have a lot of members.]] In total, there are three composers (four before the death of founder O'Neill in 2017), 20 vocalists, five guitarists, three bassists, two drummers, four keyboardists and three violinists currently playing with them, studio, live (in two touring groups, an East and a West) or otherwise. They have a legendary stage show because of their spectacular light shows, performing abilities and [[EpicRocking kick ass music]]. Despite being together for over 20 years, they've only released six albums, as their composers are known perfectionists. They delayed their album ''Night Castle'' for three years before it was finally released in October of 2009. While they would release the EP ''Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night)'' in 2012, their next full-length album, ''Letters From the Labyrinth'', would have to wait until mid-November 2015. They also delayed their second stage show, based on their ''Music/BeethovensLastNight'' album, for almost ''ten years'' before finally putting it on tour in spring of 2010. The stage show for ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' premiered in 2012, eight years after the release of the album.

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a rock orchestra from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity conceived by Paul O'Neill in 1996. Their style mixes rock, metal and classical music into a famous sound almost anyone should recognize. All of their albums are RockOperas and three of these (five albums in total) are Christmas RockOperas. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters They have a lot of members.]] In total, there are three composers (four before the [[AuthorExistenceFailure death of founder O'Neill in 2017]]), 20 vocalists, five guitarists, three bassists, two drummers, four keyboardists and three violinists currently playing with them, studio, live (in two touring groups, an East and a West) or otherwise. They have a legendary stage show because of their spectacular light shows, performing abilities and [[EpicRocking kick ass music]]. Despite being together for over 20 years, they've only released six albums, as their composers are known perfectionists. They delayed their album ''Night Castle'' for three years before it was finally released in October of 2009. While they would release the EP ''Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night)'' in 2012, their next full-length album, ''Letters From the Labyrinth'', would have to wait until mid-November 2015. They also delayed their second stage show, based on their ''Music/BeethovensLastNight'' album, for almost ''ten years'' before finally putting it on tour in spring of 2010. The stage show for ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' premiered in 2012, eight years after the release of the album.

* ChaosOfTheBells: The TSO's cover of "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24", to the melody of "Carol of the Bells", is perhaps one of the most poular instances of this trope, scoring a story of war and protest with an electric guitar rendition of the classic ChristmasSong.

* NonIndicativeName: The band has no particular connection to Siberia or the Trans-Siberian Railway

* OminousLatinChanting: Some of their songs have Ominous ''English'' Chanting. Examples include "Night Enchanted" (which covers Verdi's Requiem in the first part) and "Who I Am". However, Latin chanting does indeed show up in "Requiem the Fifth", although it's quite a unique example in that it's purely female voices, making it sound almost angelic.

* OminousLatinChanting: Some of their songs have Ominous ''English'' Chanting. Examples include "Night Enchanted" (which covers Verdi's Requiem in the first part) and "Who I Am".

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: They are heavily known for their hardcore metal covers of classical pieces, yet they also have occasionally created very mellow, purely-orchestrated songs, such as "Promises to Keep".

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: They are heavily known as a rock band who creates heavy metal covers of classical pieces, yet they also occasionally create very mellow, purely-orchestrated songs, such as "Promises to Keep".