Trans-Siberian Orchestra opens its 30th-anniversary tour at the Resch Center

Green Bay again gets one of the first nights of TSO's winter run, with "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve" coming to the Resch Center on Thursday, Nov 19.

Two weeks from Thursday, the lights go down in Ashwaubenon and the holiday season, for a lot of Fox Valley families, officially starts. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is back at the Resch Center, and once again Green Bay gets it first.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra plays the Resch Center on Thursday, Nov 19. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets run $63 to $189 through the Resch Center box office. WBAY reports the band is playing two shows at the Resch that day, a 2:30 p.m. matinee and the 7:30 p.m. performance.

This one is a milestone. The 2026 run is TSO's 30th-anniversary winter tour, built around a reimagined staging of *The Ghosts of Christmas Eve* followed by a second set, as Consequence and Ultimate Classic Rock laid out when it was announced. The tour starts Nov. 19 with performances in Green Bay and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and runs through late December (TicketNews), with stops including Las Vegas on Dec. 4, per FOX5.

Green Bay opening night is becoming a habit. The Resch Center hosted one of the tour's first shows in 2022, on Nov. 16, according to WFRV, and the 2023 tour again kicked off in Green Bay and Council Bluffs, as KTTC reported. Opening nights carry their own charge: the crew has just finished building the show, the band is fresh, and the crowd gets to see the full production before anyone else in the country.

Once again Green Bay gets it first.

The production is the reason people come back year after year. TSO's shows pair a rock band and string players with the kind of lights, lasers and pyro that turn an arena into a light show, and *The Ghosts of Christmas Eve* is the story-driven holiday piece that frames the first half of the night. The Resch, which holds 9,877, is big enough to give that staging room to breathe.

If you are going, give yourself time: an arena opening night in mid-November means parking lots and coat checks at full strength. Doors at 6:30 will be busy.

Bring the family, bundle up for the walk in, and let the season start on Nov 19.

Sources: Trans-Siberian Orchestra starts 30th anniversary ‘Ghosts of Christmas Eve’ tour in Green Bay — WBAY (wbay.com); Trans-Siberian Orchestra Announce 30th Anniversary “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” Winter Tour — Consequence (concerts.consequence.net); Trans-Siberian Orchestra Returns for 30 Years of Holiday Spectacle This Winter — Ultimate Classic Rock (ultimateclassicrock.com); Trans-Siberian Orchestra unveils 30th anniversary The Ghosts of Christmas Eve winter tour — TicketNews (ticketnews.com); Trans-Siberian Orchestra bringing 30th anniversary winter tour to Las Vegas — FOX5 (fox5vegas.com); Trans-Siberian Orchestra to play at Resch Center in Brown County — WFRV (wearegreenbay.com); Trans-Siberian Orchestra will return with a heavy metal holiday tour — KTTC (kttc.com); Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Resch Center — tickets (ticketstar.evenue.net)