Following multiple acts throughout the 20-minute performance, Symphony of the Green Island is a Guinness World Record–breaking live water show created as part of Sun Group’s vision for a world-class destination experience on Cát Bà Island, Vietnam.
Developed and produced under Sun Group’s leadership, the show brings island mythology to life through movement and colour on a vast, living canvas — combining storytelling, technology and large-scale performance in an open coastal environment.
The production was delivered by Laservision in close partnership with Sun Group and H2O Events, alongside a wider network of creative, technical and performance specialists.
Highlights
Highlights within this visually stunning environment include:
- A purpose-built 50,000-square-metre aquatic theatre
- Hundreds of moving head intelligent lighting fixtures and lasers
- Over 40 live cast operating high-speed jet skis, fly boards and jet surfs
- A sound system delivering consistent, high-quality audio across the 400-metre beachfront
- Kilometres of fibre forming the networking backbone of the system
- Current Guinness World Record holder for the largest jet ski and fireworks formation
Creative
The visual language of the show feels mythical and elemental — timeless, yet grounded in the raw, sacred textures of Cát Bà.
Working closely with Sun Group’s creative leadership, the production was structured in layered chapters: the fairies’ descent, followed by Wood, Fire, Metal, Water and Earth — each with its own emotional and symbolic identity.
Jet skis became moving symbols — trees, waves and flowers — while lighting shaped the natural environment and lasers introduced the mystical. Every visual choice was rooted in transcendence, transformation and the idea of nature in dialogue with the divine: a myth told through movement on a living canvas.
The island’s duality — solid yet fluid, dense yet delicate — inspired the use of contrasting colour pairs such as green/magenta, red/cyan and yellow/violet. These combinations reflected the elemental oppositions within the story itself: chaos (fire) contrasted by control (metal), and movement (waves) contrasted by stillness (trees).
Design
A defining feature of the visual design is the scale of the 50,000-square-metre aquatic theatre.
Without physical walls to contain lighting and laser effects, the visual canvas extends hundreds of metres into the sky, expanding far beyond the immediate performance space. Combined with large-scale pyrotechnics and more than 40 performers operating high-speed watercraft, this creates a truly unique and immersive spectacle.
This spatial freedom was central to Sun Group’s ambition to create an experience that feels open, cinematic and inseparable from the surrounding natural landscape.
Scale
The environment has been brought to life with hundreds of intelligent lighting fixtures and lasers, supported by a sound system designed to provide consistent coverage across the full 400-metre beachfront.
Kilometres of fibre-optic cabling provide the networking backbone for the system, enabling precise synchronisation across the entire site.
The beach area can accommodate more than 10,000 guests, and the show has been designed to ensure every audience member leaves with a memorable and positive experience.
This is the largest aquatic stage Laservision has ever delivered, made possible through close partnership with Sun Group and the specialist performance teams at H2O Events.
Technical
From a technical standpoint, installing and operating sensitive, cutting-edge equipment in a marine environment presents significant challenges — including high humidity, extreme temperatures, large tidal variations and saltwater exposure.
Laservision’s engineering and design teams dedicated extensive development time to creating a robust, purpose-built solution capable of operating reliably under these conditions.
The result is a resilient system delivering a world-class visual experience night after night, aligned with Sun Group’s long-term operational and destination objectives.
Programming
The key to delivering a synchronised performance across multiple mediums lies in detailed planning and extensive off-site pre-programming.
The Laservision team worked closely with Sun Group executives, musical composer Nhat, H2O Events and the pyrotechnics team to develop a cue-by-cue simulation of the show, allowing all parties to visualise the performance in full before arriving on site.
Once installed, the pre-programmed sequences were integrated with the live cast. Coordinating more than 40 performers operating jet skis, flyboards and jet surfs requires pinpoint timing and spatial accuracy — particularly for lighting and laser programming.
After many nights of rehearsal, the H2O Events performance team consistently achieved precise cue execution, resulting in a highly synchronised and repeatable nightly production.
Partners
- Sun Group – Led by Mr Jarvis Cuong Nguyen and Ms Gabrielle Chuyu Tan, along with the entire Sun Group team
- H2O Events – Led by Jack Ellison, along with the entire extreme sports (jet skis, fly boards and jet surfs) team
- Skylighter Fireworks – Led by Harrison Smith, along with the pyrotechnics team
- Laservision – Shannon Brooks (project director), Phillip Schmidt (project manager), Arif Mohammad, Jason Tam, Juan Zubiaga (creative director), Angela Davis, Emma Lai, Michael Hanlon, Steve Kalagurgevic, Robert McRostie, Gladdies Bernado, John Kincaid, Sam Connolly plus contractors – Tara Winona, Theo Cox and Daryl Bowen, along with the entire local installation team.
