Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2025 Tour Brings Lasers, Pyro and Nostalgia to New York Dates: Here’s When and How to Get Tickets

Sage Matthews here, your midnight narrator of festive excess, and yes, of course the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is gearing up to crank Christmas to eleven again in 2025. Another day, another reminder that the universe loves a rerun, complete with lasers, pyro, and a soundtrack engineered to shake loose the tinsel in your skull. The holiday juggernaut has announced The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More Tour, running from Nov. 13 through Dec. 30 across North America, with New York and New Jersey stops sliding neatly into your seasonal calendar like a candy cane you did not ask for but will somehow still eat.

Here is the hard data, because even cynics deserve receipts. The New York region gets four performances across three venues. Albany’s MVP Arena lands the spectacle on Wednesday, Dec. 17. Belmont Park’s UBS Arena gets a turn on Thursday, Dec. 18. Newark’s Prudential Center hosts a double bill on Friday, Dec. 19, with a 3 p.m. matinee for the kids and an 8 p.m. show for the night owls who consider sleigh bells a lifestyle. This all tracks with the returning production built around the late founder Paul O’Neill’s 1999 TV special The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, the one that stitched narrative vignettes between orchestral rock epics. If you need a refresher, the special featured Ossie Davis as the caretaker and Allie Sheridan as the lost child, with appearances by Michael Crawford and Jewel, and it is streaming free on Tubi. Because nostalgia is eternal and also apparently ad supported.

TSO guitarist and musical director Al Pitrelli spelled out the approach in an interview with USA Today, saying, We like to mix it up for the audience and for us. We have a lot of repeat offenders at the shows and our job is to keep them on their heels. They want their favorites, but the production team works all year to make sure the visuals look different. Translation for the rest of us: you will get the beloved bangers, and also a new barrage of LEDs and lasers to justify your annual pilgrimage. That tracks with their history and with last year’s set lists recorded by fans at Setlist.fm, which show a mix of story songs from The Lost Christmas Eve and staples like Wizards in Winter, A Mad Russian’s Christmas, and the warhorse Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12 24. So if you are hunting for the good stuff, odds are high it will show up between the smoke plumes.

Ticket logistics, which are somehow more complicated than assembling a fake tree, look familiar. The official on sale for The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More Tour is Friday, Sept. 5. Secondary market listings like Vivid Seats already have pages set up, with the usual caveat that prices will float above or below face value depending on demand. Vivid Seats touts a 100 percent buyer guarantee covering secure transactions and delivery before the event. All of which is a verbose way of saying that if you want to hear violins duel with electric guitars under a blizzard of spotlights, you will pay whatever the algorithm thinks your holiday cheer is worth.

Yes, we are once again doing the annual ritual where crowds pack into arenas for symphonic metal with a sleigh bell garnish. And yes, it will be bombastic, sentimental, and louder than your neighbor’s inflatable yard display on a windy night. But for many, this is the mark of the season, as dependable as mall Santas and end of year gridlock. The tour’s reliance on O’Neill’s 1999 concept keeps the core intact, while the Best of TSO promise gives the faithful their cathartic hits. Between the USA Today comments from Pitrelli and the recent set list patterns logged at Setlist.fm, there is enough corroboration to predict a show that feels familiar yet freshly polished, like a snow globe you keep shaking because you still want to believe in the glitter.

Context matters here. TSO’s hybrid of classical motifs and hard rock theatrics has been a holiday monopoly for decades, outlasting network rebrands, MP3s, and at least three streaming wars. The production scale is not an accessory, it is the point. Those jaw dropping lasers and one of a kind loud sound are not just marketing lines repeated in venues from Albany to Newark, they are the main attraction. If you are allergic to spectacle, this is not your peppermint tea. If you live for it, this is the Super Bowl of seasonal overkill.

Practical advice no one asked for but everyone needs: set reminders for the Sept. 5 on sale, compare face value options against secondary marketplaces, and decide early whether you want the family friendly matinee or the evening blast zone. Also, if you are the planner friend, send your people the Tubi link to The Ghosts of Christmas Eve so they can pretend this was always about the story. Then tell them to meet you at UBS Arena or Prudential Center with earplugs and a tolerance for pyro.

Because of course this is happening, and of course the calendar will fill up. The only mystery left is how quickly those New York area dates vanish and what deep cut, if any, slips into the set between First Snow and Requiem The Fifth. Keep one eye on official updates and another on the resale roller coaster, because the holiday machine does not slow down for anyone. Anyway, bookmark this for the inevitable I told you so moment when tickets start evaporating like frost on a tour bus window.

Sources: Celebrity Storm and New York Post
USA Today
Setlist.fm
Vivid Seats
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