Dreams of Fireflies

Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night) is an EP by the rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was released in 2012 on Lava Records, and is based on the fourth movement (Winter) of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night)
EP by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Released	October 30, 2012
Genre	Christmas music classical music progressive rock symphonic metal
Length	15:28
Label	Lava Records
Producer	Paul O'Neill
Trans-Siberian Orchestra chronology
Night Castle (2009) Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night) (2012) Letters from the Labyrinth (2015)

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 albums chart on its first week of release,^[1] selling around 31,000 copies in the United States in its first week. It also debuted at No. 3 on Billboard's Rock Albums chart,^[2] No. 1 on the Hard Rock Albums chart,^[3] as well as No. 2 on the Top Holiday Albums chart.^[4] As of October 2015, the album has sold 344,000 copies in the US.^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Winter Palace (Instrumental)"	Paul O'Neill	3:39
2.	"Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night) (Instrumental)"	Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (The Four Seasons Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (The Magic Flute), Paul O'Neill	2:30
3.	"I Had a Memory"	Paul O'Neill	3:00
4.	"Someday"	Paul O'Neill	3:43
5.	"Time You Should Be Sleeping"	Paul O'Neill, Robert Kinkel, Jon Oliva	2:36

Personnel

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Paul O'Neill – guitars Jon Oliva – keyboards Al Pitrelli – lead guitar, rhythm guitar Chris Caffery – guitars Roddy Chong – violin Angus Clark – guitars Joel Hoekstra – guitars Mee Eun Kim – keyboards Vitalij Kuprij – keyboards Jane Mangini – keyboards Johnny Lee Middleton – bass guitar John O'Reilly – drums Jeff Plate – drums Derek Wieland – keyboards David Zablidowsky – bass Dave Wittman – drums, guitar & bass inserts Erika Jerry – lead vocals on "I Had A Memory" Tim Hockenberry – lead vocals on "Someday" Georgia Napolitano – lead vocals on "Time You Should Be Sleeping (Christmas Lullaby)"

Production Paul O'Neill – producer

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2012) Peak position US Billboard 200[6] 9 US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard)[7] 2 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[8] 3

Year-end charts Chart (2013) Position US Billboard 200[9] 148 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[10] 37