The Lost Christmas Eve The Lost Christmas Eve The Lost Christmas Eve is the fourth album by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was released on October 12, 2004, and is the last album in their "Christmas trilogy", with "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" (1996) and "The Christmas Attic" (1998) coming before it. All three albums, as well as their "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve" DVD, were featured in the box set of "The Christmas Trilogy". In 2012 Trans-Siberian Orchestra toured a live production of "The Lost Christmas Eve" for the first time and performed the Rock Opera in over 100 arena shows across North America.
Christmas Eve (opera) Christmas Eve (opera) Christmas Eve (, "Noch' pered Rozhdestvom"), is an opera in four acts with music and libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Composed between 1894 and 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera on a short story, "Christmas Eve", from Nikolai Gogol's "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". The story had been used as the basis for an opera at least three times previously, including for Tchaikovsky's "Vakula the Smith" (1874). Oliver Knussen writes that "Rimsky is only interested in recreating the atmosphere of the folk-tale, fleshing it out for his stage pageant in a comparable way to Humperdinck in "Hansel". Gerald