A Gala Christmas in Vienna Placido Domingo and Sarah Brightman stick to traditional fare like "Deck the Halls" and European carols, all is bright", and cautioned "but when Domingo bellows over Trevor Horn's bombastic "The Closing of the Year," and Brightman attempts to rock on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," they're just schlockin' around the Christmas tree." A Gala Christmas in Vienna A Gala Christmas in Vienna or Christmas in Vienna V is a DVD released in 1998. Plácido Domingo, Sarah Brightman, Helmut Lotti and Riccardo Cocciante perform traditional, European and American Christmas songs in Vienna, Austria. The orchestra was the Vienna Symphony, conducted
Christmas Extraordinaire Christmas Extraordinaire Christmas Extraordinaire is Mannheim Steamroller's sixth Christmas album overall and the group's fourth Christmas studio album. The album was originally released in 2001. The song "O Tannenbaum" features a lead vocal by Johnny Mathis. Five of the album's tracks were included in the group's 2004 compilation "Christmas Celebration". On June 21, 2004, "Christmas Extraordinaire" was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States. As of November 2014, "Christmas Extraordinaire" is the fourteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. in the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales