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November 3, 2026

Shanghai Classical Concerts, November 2026: Top 10

November's Shanghai concert calendar lists 70 productions and concerts. 10 of them are below, in order of recommendation, each with dates, hall, price and status; three are sold out. Then come three programmes of the 8th Shanghai Early Music Festival, three performances of Mahler's Fourth Symphony across two weeks, and evenings when two concerts start at the same time.

By 零九·Edited by 马勒迷

The November calendar in Shanghai has 70 productions and concerts, 128 performances, across 13 halls. The ten below are ranked by recommendation, and each one gives its dates, hall, ticket prices and sales status. Three are sold out, all at the Shanghai Grand Opera House.

1. Thielemann conducts the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Der Rosenkavalier

8 November at 14:30; 10 and 12 November at 18:30 · Shanghai Grand Opera House Harmony Hall · ¥180–1280 · Sold out

Three performances of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier are given by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden at the Shanghai Grand Opera House, in André Heller's production, conducted by Christian Thielemann. According to the Shanghai Grand Opera House, the company comes to China with its original cast for the first time. A reading of the house's mini-program on 29 October showed the three performances sold out. Details

2. Buchbinder and the Staatskapelle Berlin: the complete Beethoven piano concertos

7 and 9 November at 19:30 · Shanghai Grand Opera House Soar Theatre · ¥280–1280 · On sale

Rudolf Buchbinder plays all five Beethoven piano concertos over two evenings, directing the Staatskapelle Berlin from the keyboard, with no separate conductor. On 7 November, Concertos Nos. 2, 4 and 3; on 9 November, Nos. 1 and 5, the "Emperor". Each evening runs about 90 minutes with one interval. The Shanghai Grand Opera House says Shanghai is the only stop on the Asian tour with the complete cycle. From 7 to 12 November the Staatsoper Unter den Linden gives five performances at the Shanghai Grand Opera House: three performances of Der Rosenkavalier and the two concerto evenings. Details

3. Yuja Wang with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

13 and 14 November at 19:30 · Shanghai Grand Opera House Harmony Hall · ¥280–1880 · Sold out

The two evenings are different programmes. Yuja Wang plays the piano and directs the orchestra from the keyboard. On 13 November she plays Brahms's two piano concertos in a single evening. On 14 November, the first half holds Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks concerto and Mozart's Symphony No. 29, the second half Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony and Kapustin's Piano Concerto No. 4. Stravinsky's piece went in on 2 November, in place of Tsfasman's Jazz Suite as first scheduled, and refunds for the 14 November performance close at 20:00 on 6 November. A reading of the house's mini-program on 29 October showed both evenings sold out. Details

4. Víkingur Ólafsson, piano recital

5 November at 19:30 · Oriental Concert Hall · ¥180–580 · On sale

Each of the five works is in E major or E minor. Bach's Prelude in E major BWV 854 is followed by Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor (Op. 90), then Bach's Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV 830 and Schubert's Piano Sonata in E minor D 566, with Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major (Op. 109) last. Details

5. The Tallis Scholars, Painful Melancholy

17 November at 19:30 · Shanghai Symphony Hall Concert Hall · ¥80–580 · On sale

One of the concerts of the 8th Shanghai Early Music Festival, conducted by Peter Phillips. The hall says the first half takes mothers as its subject, with works by Palestrina, Josquin and Pärt; the second half has Tallis's Lamentations, works by Gibbons and Wilbye, and Recordare, which the American composer Nico Muhly wrote for this choir. About 90 minutes with an interval. Details

6. Noah Bendix-Balgley and Diyang Mei with the Berliner Barock Solisten

12 November at 19:30 · Oriental Concert Hall · ¥180–980 · On sale

All Mozart. Noah Bendix-Balgley plays Violin Concerto No. 1, K. 207, and Diyang Mei plays a transcription for viola of the Clarinet Concerto K. 622; the two also play the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola K. 364, and the programme includes the Adagio and Fugue in C minor K. 546. Details

7. Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante

14 November at 19:30 · Shanghai Concert Hall Main Hall · ¥80–680 · On sale

The first half is Corelli's Concerto Grosso in D major (Op. 6 No. 4), Geminiani's Concerto Grosso in D minor "La Folia" after Corelli, and two of Locatelli's Introduzioni teatrali; the second half is Vivaldi's The Four Seasons complete, with Biondi playing the violin and directing. On 27 November the Shanghai Concert Hall has another Four Seasons, with Leticia Moreno and Soloists from the Teatro Real Orchestra playing Vivaldi in the first half and Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires in the second. Details

8. Shanghai Opera House, Turandot

20 November at 19:30; 22 November at 14:00 · Shanghai Grand Opera House Harmony Hall · ¥180–880 · Sold out

The Shanghai Opera House's own production, directed by Roberto Andò in 2018, revived this time by Marco Gandini, conducted by Paolo Carignani. Ewa Vesin sings Turandot, Ivan Magrì Calaf and Xiao Xinyi Liù. Turandot was first performed at La Scala in Milan on 25 April 1926, and 2026 is the centenary of the premiere. The opera runs about 145 minutes with two intervals. On 29 October the house's mini-program showed it sold out. Details

9. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko

9 November at 19:30 · Oriental Concert Hall · ¥280–1280 · On sale

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was founded by Thomas Beecham in 1946; this visit belongs to its 80th-anniversary season, and its music director Vasily Petrenko conducts. The programme is Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad rhapsody, Tan Dun's double bass concerto Wolf Totem and Stravinsky's Petrushka in the 1947 version, with the orchestra's principal Jason Henery as double bass soloist. In the promoter's published programme, Petrushka is listed as the complete work in Chinese and as the suite in English, and it has not said which it will follow. Details

10. Michel Dalberto plays Mozart

6 November at 19:30 · Shanghai Symphony Hall Concert Hall · ¥80–380 · On sale

The whole programme is Mozart's solo piano music, six works: Fantasia in C minor K. 475, Sonata in A minor K. 310, Sonata in A major K. 331, Nine Variations on a Minuet by Duport K. 573, Rondo in A minor K. 511, Sonata in C minor K. 457. About 105 minutes with an interval. Details

The 8th Shanghai Early Music Festival takes melancholy as its theme

The Shanghai Symphony Hall's early music festival this year takes melancholy as its theme, with three programmes in November. Besides the Tallis Scholars on 17 November, on 22 November Iestyn Davies and the lutenist Sergio Bucheli sing a whole evening of John Dowland songs in the Chamber Hall, the same programme at 15:00 and 19:15, about one hour with no interval; the hall says 2026 is the 400th anniversary of Dowland's death. On 30 November, Andreas Staier plays keyboard works by Froberger, Louis Couperin, d'Anglebert, Fischer, Clérambault and Muffat in the Chamber Hall, titled "A Remedy for Melancholy".

Mahler's Fourth Symphony, three performances in two weeks

On 15 November Michel Tabachnik conducts the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler's Fourth Symphony at the Shanghai Symphony Hall Concert Hall, with Haydn's Symphony No. 104 in D major "London" in the first half and soprano Song Qian. On 18 November Sun Yifan conducts the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in Erwin Stein's chamber version at the Chamber Hall. On 29 November Yang Yang conducts the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler's Fourth Symphony at the Hangzhou Grand Theatre, with soprano Li Jingjing and, in the same programme, Zhou Tian's Gift and the world premiere of Ye Xiaogang's violin capriccio That Which Kindles.

Evenings when two concerts start at the same time

At 19:30 on 7 November, Buchbinder's first evening and Javier Perianes's recital at the Shanghai Concert Hall begin at the same time. Buchbinder's second evening and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra both begin at 19:30 on 9 November, one at the Shanghai Grand Opera House Soar Theatre, the other at the Oriental Concert Hall. On 12 November Der Rosenkavalier starts at 18:30, and the Mozart programme of Bendix-Balgley and Mei at 19:30. On 13 November at 19:30, Yuja Wang's first evening and the concert by Li Xincao, Li-Wei Qin and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra begin together. Tabachnik's Mahler Fourth and Khatia Buniatishvili's recital both begin at 19:30 on 15 November.

14 November: 14 performances in one day

The 14th is the busiest day this month, with 14 performances all day, 10 of them in the evening and 8 starting at 19:30. Yuja Wang's second evening and Biondi's Four Seasons are both that evening.

All 14 performances on 14 November

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