The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More

Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s 2026 winter tour is billed as The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More, pairing the holiday rock opera with a second set of TSO classics and rarely performed gems. The routing on this page covers 56 city dates across 28 tour days, opening Nov 19 in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Council Bluffs, Iowa and closing Dec 30 in Buffalo, New York and St. Louis, Missouri.

2026 is TSO’s 30th anniversary — three decades after Paul O’Neill assembled a group of Savatage veterans and recorded a Christmas rock opera the industry did not believe would sell. Al Pitrelli continues as music director. Toronto (Dec 29, Scotiabank Arena) is the only Canadian stop on the schedule.

The authoritative source for this tour is the official TSO tour page at trans-siberian.com. This is an independent guide, so treat anything here as a convenience summary and confirm on official channels before you buy or travel.

TSO runs two complete touring ensembles simultaneously — referred to as East and West — each with roughly 100 musicians, vocalists, narrators, and crew, plus its own full production rig. That is why nearly every date on this page lists two cities: one cast is playing Cincinnati while the other plays Denver.

Both casts rehearse together in Council Bluffs, Iowa before splitting to opposite ends of the country, which is why Council Bluffs appears on opening night alongside Green Bay. Because most markets host two performances in a day, TSO can play four arena concerts across two time zones on a single date — a logistical model no other touring act has matched at this scale.

The two casts perform the same production. You are not choosing between different shows, so pick the date and arena that suit you.

Most markets on this routing host two performances: a matinee and an evening show. The date rows on this page label which slots each city plays. Fifteen dates are flagged as evening-only in the tour announcement — including Council Bluffs, Wilkes-Barre, Nashville, Charleston, Fresno, Las Vegas, Allentown, Austin, Raleigh, Bossier City, Charlottesville, Birmingham, Albany, Jacksonville, and Sunrise.

Exact clock times are set per venue rather than published as one tour-wide schedule, so we label the slots instead of guessing times. TSO matinees have historically started around 3:00 PM local with evening shows around 7:30 or 8:00 PM, but confirm the printed time on your ticket and your venue’s listing.

Matinees are often the slightly less crowded option and a common pick for families with young children. The show runs roughly two to two and a half hours including an intermission, with the narrative production in the first half and a pyrotechnic greatest-hits set in the second.

TSO’s 2026 on-sale runs as a ladder rather than a single drop. Fan Club members go first, split across two days — November dates on Thursday, Sep 10 and December dates on Friday, Sep 11 — with Legacy members starting at 10 AM local and Signature members at noon local. Fan Club membership is free.

If you miss the Fan Club windows, the Official TSO Pre-Sale on Thursday, Sep 17 runs 24 hours with no membership or pre-registration required; TSO sends the access code by SMS or email. Everything remaining goes to general on-sale Friday, Sep 18.

Face-value odds are best in these official windows. Sign up on trans-siberian.com and verify your city’s clock right before you queue — timing is confirmed per market by the venue and promoter.

Primary tickets — the first release through the artist, promoter, or venue — are not the same as resale. GhostsOfChristmasEveTour.com links to GoTickets, a resale marketplace, for discovery after you have worked the official presale and on-sale paths above.

TSO events are still being added to the GoTickets performer page, so per-city listings will appear there over time. Until a city is listed, the ticket buttons here open the main Trans-Siberian Orchestra page rather than a specific arena date.

Read marketplace terms before you buy, and compare all-in prices including fees across sections rather than sorting on the headline number.

There is no single correct ticket price for a TSO show. Cost moves with market, arena, seat location, matinee versus evening, how close you buy to the date, and whether the inventory is primary or resale.

This routing mixes 20,000-seat NBA and NHL buildings like Ball Arena, Little Caesars Arena, and Scotiabank Arena with smaller rooms like Covelli Centre in Youngstown and the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs. Expect that spread to show up in pricing. Check live listings at purchase time rather than relying on averages from previous years.

One detail worth knowing: TSO donates at least one dollar from every ticket sold to a charity local to that city — a practice in place since the first tour in 1999 that has passed $16 million to date.