October 5, 2026
On sale since September: the Dresden String Quintet, American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake, Biondi and Europa Galante
American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake has five November performances at the Shanghai Grand Opera House and went on sale on 23 September. At the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Dresden String Quintet and Fabio Biondi with Europa Galante went on sale on 16 and 11 September. The three Mozart Chamber Music Week programmes are also listed.
By 小魔女·Edited by 马勒迷
American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake has five performances at the Soar Theatre in the Shanghai Grand Opera House, 12 to 15 November. Tickets opened at 15:00 on 23 September, in eight bands, from 1280 down to 180 yuan. The 15 November performance closes the 25th China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
The house has released the principal casting for each performance (Odette/Odile, then Prince Siegfried): 12 November, Chloe Misseldine and Aran Bell; 13 November, Catherine Hurlin and James Whiteside; 14 November at 14:00, Skylar Brandt and Herman Cornejo; 14 November at 19:30, Christine Shevchenko and Calvin Royal III; 15 November, Devon Teuscher and Jarod Curley. Casting is subject to change. According to the house's notice of 23 September, physical tickets are exchanged at the Shanghai Grand Theatre box office (Entrance G1, 300 People's Avenue) until the opera house opens.
Two chamber concerts in the main hall of the Shanghai Concert Hall opened in September; both sell through the 上海音乐厅 WeChat mini-program. On 6 November at 19:30, the Dresden String Quintet plays Halvorsen's Passacaglia after Handel, Beethoven's String Trio Op. 9 No. 3 and Schubert's String Quintet D. 956; open since 17:30 on 16 September, 480 to 80 yuan. On 14 November at 19:30, Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante play concertos by Corelli, Geminiani and Locatelli, then Vivaldi's The Four Seasons complete; open since 19:00 on 11 September, 680 to 80 yuan.
For Su Meng and Félicien Brut's guitar and accordion concert on 12 December at 19:30, the hall said on 小红书 on 17 September that tickets would open at 17:30 the next day. The announcement gave no prices.
On 29 September the Shanghai Grand Opera House published the three Mozart Chamber Music Week programmes for the Open Stage. 1 November: Mozart's Concertone for two violins K. 190, Eine kleine Nachtmusik K. 525 and the Clarinet Concerto K. 622. 5 November: the Motus Quartet in Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet K. 465, Webern's slow movement for string quartet and Brahms's String Quartet No. 2. 7 November: the Han Quartet with guests in Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and Mozart's String Quintet in G minor K. 516. Two start times for 1 November, 19:30 and 15:00, are still printed by the house. The 2 October post said these programmes had not been published; that was wrong.
Permit 沪文旅许[2026]5586号 (30 September) sets 19:30 as the start time of Winterreise by Sun Zhuohan and KaJeng Wong, on 14 January 2027 at the Shanghai Grand Theatre's Drama Theatre. The theatre has not yet announced the sale.