Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Welcome (Live in Toronto, Ontario 2024) Video

Savatage - Welcome Lyrics:

The lights come on
The set is down
The curtain's flown away
To all you creatures of the night
I say it's time we play
We'll show you things
That in your life
You'd never dreamed you'd know
And now before the ghosts arrive
It's welcome to the show!
Minstrels, kings, explorers
Fantasies on order
Ghosts and dreams awakened
Stories long forsaken
The minstrel and the sorcerer
Are switching their disguise
The jester drinks and starts to think
That he alone is wise
The governor and journalist
Exchange a Judas kiss
And now before the song is done
The plot begins to twist
Ghosts and lost explorers
Fate with all her daughters
Saints and hopeless sinners
Wise men in their winters know
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show
Welcome to the show
Christmas Eve and Other Stories (1996)
The Christmas Attic (1998)
The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (1999)
Beethoven's Last Night (2000)
The Lost Christmas Eve (2004)
Night Castle (2009)
Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night) (EP) (2012)
Letters from the Labyrinth (2015)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded in 1996 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. The band gained in popularity when they began touring in 1999 after completing their second album, The Christmas Attic, the year previous. TSO has sold more than 10 million concert tickets and over 10 million albums. The band has released a series of rock operas: Christmas Eve and Other Stories, The Christmas Attic, Beethoven's Last Night, The Lost Christmas Eve, their two-disc Night Castle and Letters From the Labyrinth. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is also known for their extensive charity work and elaborate concerts, which include a string section, a light show, lasers, moving trusses, video screens, and effects synchronized to music.
Both Billboard Magazine and Pollstar have ranked them as one of the top twenty-five ticket-selling bands in the first decade of the new millennium. Their path to success was unusual in that, according to O'Neill, TSO is the first major rock band to go straight to theaters and arenas, having never played at a club, never having an opening act and never being an opening act.