August 13, 2026
SHOAC | The Vakhtangov Theatre's Amadeus and Pushkin Tales Go On Sale Tomorrow at 2pm
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.
By 小魔女·Edited by 马勒迷
Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre brings two productions to SHOAC's opera hall in November, both directed by the theatre's chief director Anatoly Shuliev and performed in Russian with Chinese surtitles. Tickets are ¥280, 380, 480, 600, 680, 750, 880, 900 and 1080, on sale at 2pm on 14 August. Buy the ¥680 tier or above before 23:59 on 6 September and the ¥1080, 880 and 680 tiers cost ¥900, 750 and 600; two-ticket bundles are also offered.
Amadeus, 11–12 November, 19:15
Peter Shaffer's play in the 2023 staging, about 170 minutes with one interval. It was Shuliev's first production on the theatre's main stage, in the year he was made its chief director. The story is told from Salieri's side. A court composer who worked for years to reach the top of musical Vienna meets a flippant young man whose manuscripts carry no corrections, and spends the rest of his life destroying him and hating himself for it. Mozart's own music, letters and documented history are worked into the production, but this is a play and not a concert, which the ticketing pages make easy to miss. It won the MK Theatre Award for best actor.
Pushkin Tales, 14 November 19:15 and 15 November 14:00
Pushkin's Belkin Tales staged, about 200 minutes with one interval, premiered in 2024 for the 225th anniversary of Pushkin's birth and Shuliev's first production after his appointment. Four stories mapped onto four seasons, The Squire's Daughter for spring and summer, The Shot for autumn, The Blizzard for winter, and The Stationmaster as spring returns. It won the Crystal Turandot for set design and the MK Theatre Award for best supporting actor. The production includes smoking and gunshots.
On running time and seats
SHOAC's ticketing API reports 90 minutes for both productions; the announcement says 170 and 200. We checked the field across 49 sittings currently on sale and 36 of them read 90, so it is a default rather than a measurement, and our pages use the announced figures. Separately, sightlines to the surtitles are poor from some orchestra-pit seats, which matters for two productions that are surtitled throughout.
The Vakhtangov was founded on Moscow's Arbat in 1921 by Yevgeny Vakhtangov, a pupil of Stanislavski. All three of its recent Shanghai visits have been to this hall, with War and Peace in 2024 and Eugene Onegin and Uncle Vanya in 2025.