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 is sometimes referred to as "Misa de Gallo", or "Missa do Galo" in Portuguese ("Rooster's Mass"). In the Philippines, the custom has expanded into the nine-day "Simbang Gabi", when Filipinos attend dawn Masses (traditionally beginning around 04:00 to 05:00 PST) from 16 December, continuing daily until Christmas Eve. In 2009 Vatican officials scheduled the Midnight Mass to start at 10 pm so that the 82-year-old Pope Benedict XVI would not have too late a night. Whilst it does not include any kind of Mass, the Church of Scotland has a service beginning just before midnight, in which carols are sung.