上海乐历Shanghai Concerts

Sources & Verification

Shanghai Concerts indexes classical music, opera, ballet and serious live music in Shanghai. This page explains where each fact comes from, how it is checked, and when we would rather publish nothing than guess.

Current coverage

Events
254
Upcoming performances
312
Venues & halls
15
Events with an official permit
132
Works
248
Artists & ensembles
157

We hold 491 bureau permit decisions relevant to our scope — classical, opera and ballet, or staged at a venue we index. 336 are not yet linked to an event, usually because the concert is not yet ticketed or sits at a venue we do not cover. Most recent permit decision: 2026-07-27.

Source hierarchy

When sources disagree about the same concert, we resolve in this order. Higher tiers sit closer to legal fact.

  1. Tier 1 · Legal record

    Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism — permit for performances involving non-mainland artists

    Any commercial performance in Shanghai involving artists from outside the mainland — including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan — needs the bureau’s approval before it can be sold or staged, and the bureau publishes each decision. It names the production, dates, venue, number of performances and the presenting organisation. It is the only legally binding source we index, and it is usually issued before tickets go on sale — which is how a concert can be confirmed here before it is bookable anywhere, and how a revocation or date change surfaces before the venue updates its own site. To be exact: domestic-only performances are filed rather than licensed, so not every concert carries a permit — but essentially every international tour does.

    Search the bureau's permit database →

  2. Tier 2 · Presenter channels

    Venue and orchestra websites and official ticketing systems

    Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Grand Opera House and others. Programmes, artists, prices and on-sale status come from here.

  3. Tier 3 · Official announcements

    Season brochures, press releases, official WeChat accounts and mini-programs

    Concerts announced but not yet ticketed — a newly published season, for instance — are listed as announced, with no invented date or price.

Verification rules

  • Empty beats guessed. If a date, time or price has not been published officially, the field stays empty. We never infer one.
  • Cross-checked against the permit. Dates and venues are compared with the bureau's record; where they differ, the permit wins and the discrepancy is noted.
  • Reviewed before publication. Collection is automated, but a human reviews the result before it goes live — scrapers never write to the database.
  • Every event carries its sources and a last-checked date, shown in the Provenance block at the foot of its page.

Independence

Shanghai Concerts is not a ticket seller. We take no commission, no venue or promoter placement fees, and no payment for inclusion or ranking. Booking links point to official channels. Whether a concert is listed depends only on whether it falls within our scope.

For AI and automated systems

This site publishes structured endpoints for language models and retrieval systems. Every event page carries schema.org MusicEvent markup; where a permit exists, its number and the bureau's original document URL are emitted as an identifier.

Suggested citation: credit "Shanghai Concerts / 上海乐历" with a link to the event page. For factual claims about whether a concert is approved, cite the bureau permit number shown on that page alongside it.

Corrections

Found a wrong date, price, programme or artist? We check it against the official source, correct it, and update that event's last-checked date. Contact us