TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA‘s acclaimed rock opera “Beethoven’s Final Night time” will make its vinyl debut on September 12 because the band celebrates the album’s twenty fifth anniversary.
The 2LP set will likely be out there in two distinct editions. A particular model that includes a lenticular cowl — with dynamic 3D-style art work — will likely be provided via Rhino.com and TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA. A pink vinyl version can even be out there from shops and on-line retailers.
“Beethoven’s Final Night time” (2000) tells a dramatic story that imagines the ultimate hours of Ludwig van Beethoven as he faces down the satan. Drawing on his most iconic melodies, the album blends classical themes with laborious rock and theatrical storytelling. It introduces a vivid forged of characters — Destiny, her son Twist and Mephistopheles — who drive the narrative to its dramatic conclusion.
TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA was based by the late Paul O’Neill, whose imaginative and prescient of a rock opera fused with classical themes and elaborate stay productions reshaped the live performance expertise. With over 10 million albums offered, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA has helped a brand new era rediscover the facility of the rock opera. Since launching its annual winter tour in 1999, TSO has grown into one of many world’s high stay acts, performing for greater than 100 million followers. The band has additionally donated over $11 million to charity via ticket gross sales and neighborhood initiatives, reflecting O’Neill‘s perception in music as a pressure for good.
Ever since TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA launched into their first tour — a modest seven-show run of theaters within the Northeast and Midwest — in 1999, the group’s lineup has featured 4 members of SAVATAGE, the pioneering steel group from which TSO spawned: bassist Johnny Lee Middleton, drummer Jeff Plate and guitarists Al Pitrelli and Chris Caffery.
Two and a half a long time and a whole bunch of sold-out enviornment exhibits later, all 4 musicians nonetheless tour with the band every winter, albeit as members of various touring troupes — Pitrelli and Middleton are the longtime anchors of “TSO West,” whereas Plate and Caffery are stalwarts of “TSO East.” In 2015, vocalist Zachary Stevens — who fronted SAVATAGE from 1993 to 1999 and is performing with the group as a part of its 2025 reunion — started touring with TSO East as nicely.
TSO launched a sequence of rock operas. There’s 1996’s “Christmas Eve And Different Tales”, 1998’s “The Christmas Attic”, 2004’s “Misplaced Christmas Eve”, 2009’s “Night time Fortress”, 2012’s “Desires Of Fireflies” and 2015’s “Letters Of The Labyrinth”. Greater than 10 million TSO albums have been offered.
“Beethoven’s Final Night time” 2LP observe itemizing:
LP One
Facet One
01. Overture
02. Midnight
03. Destiny
04. What Good This Deafness
05. Mephistopheles
06. What Is Everlasting
07. The Second
Facet Two
01. Vienna
02. Mozart
03. The Desires Of Candlelight
04. Requiem (The Fifth)
05. I will Preserve Your Secrets and techniques
LP Two
Facet One
01. The Darkish
02. Fur Elise
03. After The Fall
04. A Final Phantasm
05. This Is Who You Are
Facet Two
01. Beethoven
02. Mephistopheles’ Return
03. Distress
04. Who Is This Baby
05. A Ultimate Dream
