At 16:00 on 10 September the Shanghai Grand Opera House announced that on the 11th it will release partially obstructed seats at 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 and 11:30 — one clock each for Tosca, Aida, Der Rosenkavalier and the Shostakovich symphonies cycle — sold only through its WeChat mini-program, limit six per order, with the 80-yuan community tickets excluded. The same day, Anna Geniushene's recital at the Shanghai Grand Theatre went on sale at 16:00 with its programme published for the first time, and Diana Krall at the Oriental Art Center opened at 14:00.
The 25th China Shanghai International Arts Festival sells its first round of discount tickets at five Bailian mall counters on 15 September from 10:00 to 13:00: 45 productions and exhibitions, about 4,300 tickets, at half the face price. Six tickets per person, two per production, no seat selection, no refunds. Remaining tickets go online in the Yihui 101 mini-programme from 09:30 on 17 September. Dates, venues and prices for the 13 concerts and 15 dance productions are below.
musicAeterna's 14 and 15 October concerts went on sale at 13:00 on 8 September as announced, with plenty of seats left. The 13 September SSO opening concert had sold out; at 00:36 on 9 September the system showed 4 seats. The presenter gave 17:30 on 8 September for Shanghai Concert Hall's three November piano recitals, and the hall's website had not listed them by early 9 September.
Which of the tour's two programmes falls on which Shanghai night had gone unsaid since the August permit. The orchestra said it this afternoon. The same evening, Shanghai Concert Hall opens three piano recitals -- Alexeev, Perianes, Osborne -- in one release.
The Hangzhou Philharmonic announced its eighteenth season on 6 September. The announcement names about twenty-five concerts and prints dates for five. Four are listed here.
Same hall, same "Oriental Classics" banner, two very different programmes. On 27 September, eleven of twelve items are orchestral arrangements of film, animation, game and pop material. On 21 November, five concert works.
One performance in the chamber hall on 26 September at 19:15, five tiers from ¥80 to ¥380, four tickets per order. Nineteen numbers, twelve singers, Tsung Yeh as artistic director. Full programmes also appeared for Benjamin Grosvenor on 3 October and for Camille Thomas and Julien Brocal on 11 October, whose curtain is 17:30.
Booking runs from 12:00 to 13:00 on 8 September, one ticket per person, with check-in between 18:30 and 19:30 on the night. Also this weekend: 《管乐的画展》 on 5 September is sold out, and two season-opening concerts are still on sale.
Shanghai Opera House's L'elisir d'amore opened at 17:00 on 1 September, six bands from ¥180 to ¥1080; Les Croissants' 31 October concert and SHOAC's 19 December Butterfly Lovers evening are also on sale.
Fifty-five concerts in Shanghai this September; these are ten of them, ranked, each with date, hall, price and ticket status. Two of the ten are already sold out. One thing visible only across three houses' programmes: Bach's Chaconne is played by three different violinists in eleven days.
Childs's Dance has been selling for nineteen days and the Vienna Waltz Orchestra for fifty-six, both under a page that said no ticketing had been announced. We had never read this house's box office.
Both went on sale — on 24 and 28 August — while our pages still said the theatre had announced neither price nor sale time. We have also corrected the on-sale date for The Phantom of the Opera: the first wave was 11 May, not 25 August.
The permit is issued and the hall has not announced tickets yet. Plus two concerts we were wrongly showing as on sale, and three that had been selling without us.
All five are selling now, from 69 to 480 yuan. The same day, the Shanghai Symphony released added seats for six season concerts — the 18 September one sold out in seven minutes — and the Hadelich ballot closes at noon tomorrow.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra brings its eightieth-anniversary season to Shanghai for one night on 9 November at the SHOAC Concert Hall. Tickets open on 28 August at 14:00; prices have not been published. Three works: Butterworth, Tan Dun's Wolf Totem for double bass, and Stravinsky's Petrushka in the 1947 version. Separately, the Volchok piano recital of 27 September has been cancelled.
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has added seats to six concerts between 11 September and 13 October. They go on sale at 13:00 on 28 August, from 80 yuan, and the announcement says the view from them is obstructed. The Hadelich recital on 22 September moves to a ballot, one ticket per mobile number.
The Anderszewski recital on 2 December went on sale at 15:00 on 27 August, through both the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra website and its WeChat mini-program, five bands from 100 to 480 yuan, four tickets per order. Bartók's Fourteen Bagatelles and Beethoven's Op. 111 are confirmed; four more works are pending.
As of 26 August, Shanghai Concerts lists 110 performances in October with 26 same-minute clashes, against 11 in August. The crowding comes from season openings, a single 19:30 curtain and the weekends. National Day week is an ordinary week.
Twenty-six Shanghai Symphony Orchestra concerts in 2026-27 still have no on-sale time, including all seven Chinese Beethoven recitals and all six MAP Class dates.
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's ticketing system now lists five price bands for the Anderszewski recital on 2 December, from 100 to 480 yuan, the top band marked VIP. No on-sale time has been configured, and only one work is named so far.
The Vienna Philharmonic plays two nights at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, on 19 and 20 October, and the programmes are entirely different. Lang Lang appears only on the 19th, as soloist in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto; the 20th is Mozart's Fortieth and Tchaikovsky's Fourth with no soloist. The two nights are ticketed separately across nine price bands from ¥380 to ¥2880, and the two cheapest are real-name only.
The Shanghai Philharmonic's Approach SPO chamber series plays twice in September, on the 12th and the 19th, both in the orchestra's own recital hall at 1498 Wuding Road West, with three price bands at ¥80 / 121 / 221. The 12th is an evening of arrangements, cello and wind sextet in Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Fauré and Saint-Saëns; the 19th is Ravel, Liszt, Milhaud and Dvořák, with the Liszt played on the harp.
The last 16 performances of the Phantom of the Opera 40th-anniversary Shanghai farewell season, 15 to 27 December, went on public sale at 11:00 on 25 August, which puts all 102 sittings of the run on sale. Checked sitting by sitting at 13:30 the same day, the closing night on 27 December already reads sold out. The earliest seat still available anywhere in the run is the matinee of 11 October, and most of what is left is in December.
The four September recitals at the Shanghai Concert Hall have published their programmes in full: Gerstein, Lozakovich, Kevin Zhu and Ensemble Schönbrunn Amsterdam. Each of the four is built on a clear idea.
28 November, 19:45, SHOAC Recital Hall. Ten works, three of them world premieres. Tickets 180 / 280 / 320 yuan, on sale since 18 August. Two other SHOAC concerts are also selling, and one of them, the New Year countdown on 31 December, still has no announced performers or programme.
Paavo Järvi brings the orchestra he founded, with the pianist Alexandre Kantorow, for one night at the SHOAC Concert Hall on 22 October at 19:30. Tüür, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Sibelius's Fifth. Five bands from 180 to 880 yuan, on sale from 14:00 on 21 August, six tickets per person.
The Shanghai culture bureau revoked the licence for the 27 September Volchok piano recital on 18 August. Re-checked at midday on 21 August, SHOAC's ticketing system was still selling it. In the same batch, the November Swan Lake was licensed again a month after being cancelled, and we have added the two sittings we were missing.
Of the 231 composers holding a classical work here, 164 now carry an Elsewhere line linking to Wikipedia and Wikidata. Cross-checking the dates turned up problems in our own records — Ding Shande’s death year, and two composers we had filed twice.
Chen Pi-hsien plays Schubert's D 575, Bartók's 14 Bagatelles and Schubert's D 960 in the Shanghai Symphony Hall's chamber hall on 13 December. Tickets opened at 14:00 on 20 August, ¥100–480, four per account. A harp-and-guzheng recital in the same building went on sale the same morning.
Shanghai Opera House brings a Der Freischütz highlights concert to the SSO hall on 22 August, ¥80–580. Two more concerts in the same building are on sale: a Chinese chamber programme on 29 August and a harp-and-guzheng duo on 5 November. All three are hall rentals, so none appears in the orchestra's own season book.
The Shanghai Grand Theatre announced its 2026-27 season, Here & Now, on 19 August. We index eighteen of its concerts, musicals and dance works; spoken drama is out of scope.
The August 17 maintenance pass. It started with one WeChat link about a Lang Lang recital and turned up something worse: BOCOM New Bund 31, a 2,500-seat house and the largest indoor theatre in the city, had never been in our venue table, while six of its permits had sat in our own archive since March. It is in now, with the two concerts there that are days away.
The August 16 maintenance pass. First, a bug we found ourselves: the site worked out what day it was from the server's timezone, and the server runs in UTC, eight hours behind Shanghai. So between midnight and eight every morning, concerts that had already finished were still listed as upcoming. Fixed. Nineteen concerts listed a full programme and not one performer; sixteen of them now name the players, and ten pages that carried the promoter's marketing copy carry ours instead.
The August 15 maintenance pass. For twenty-one hours we told readers the Joshua Bell concert was not yet on sale when it was. Thirteen concerts added, including a Rigoletto that plays tonight and that we wrote about four days ago without ever building its page.
September 5, 7.30pm, Shanghai Concert Hall main hall. Zhang Liang conducts, with Lei Jia, Huang Ying, Wang Hongwei and Shi Yijie leading. Tickets 80 to 680 yuan, on sale from 2pm on August 14. Fifteen numbers, nine European and four from Chinese national opera.
The August 14 maintenance pass. The Shanghai Opera House opening gala gained fifteen works, eighteen performers, a poster and its prices; the permit sweep found two more concerts at the Symphony Hall; and an archiver bug that was dropping ticket links is fixed.
Joshua Bell returns to the Shanghai Concert Hall on 17 October after eight years, playing the Dvořák concerto and directing the Jupiter from the violin. Tickets open 14 August, 18:00 for members and 19:00 for everyone, ¥180–880. The programme card carries a Beethoven overture the announcement does not mention.
Quatuor Van Kuijk plays the Shanghai Concert Hall main hall on 16 October, ¥100–380, on sale from 13 August. The programme is eleven single movements by eleven composers, and that is worth explaining before you buy.
Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre brings two productions to SHOAC's opera hall in November. Amadeus on 11–12 November, Pushkin Tales on 14–15 November, ¥280–1080, on sale 14 August at 2pm.
The 13 August maintenance pass. Two matinees added to UNDERTALE on 2 and 3 October, the venue box office added as a channel, and a fault of our own recorded: 160 events still show Chinese ticket copy in English.
Two months before opening, the house runs about 10 stress-test performances across three halls. A concert Rigoletto on August 15 and a Shanghai Symphony concert on August 23 are in the municipal permit feed. Neither is on public sale.
Armstrong Music Arts confirms Dmitri Alexeev will return to China this autumn. Four cities: Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Xiamen. Shanghai on November 1 at Shanghai Concert Hall.
Wu Promotion announced on August 7 that Teodor Currentzis will bring musicAeterna to Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing from October 11 to 19, 2026 — five concerts, two programs (all-Mozart and all-Beethoven), with pianist Eva Gevorgyan as soloist. The announcement gives no per-city dates, venues, prices or on-sale times. We checked the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism permit record, current through August 4: no permit has been issued for this tour, and until one is, the Shanghai date cannot go on sale.
A new on-sale calendar orders every announced ticket release by the moment it opens, covering 109 concerts so far. The Argerich, Vengerov and Isserlis chamber festival goes on sale 6 August at 2pm, checked against the government permit and the venue API. We also fixed a long-standing bug in collections and an eight-hour error in on-sale times.
