MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. Thousands of people came to Moscow's Grebnoy Canal on Friday night to watch the multimedia musical "Seven Notes", which opens the Moscow international festival Circle of Light, TASS correspondent reports. 

"This is the ninth time the festival comes to the city. It will take place at nine Moscow venues. Millions of Muscovites and guests of the capital will see this wonderful show. I want to wish you all to have as much light, music and vivid impressions as possible in your lives. I declare the IX Moscow Circle of Light international festival open,” said Alexander Gorbenko, deputy mayor of Moscow. 

Opening program

"The audience will see the multimedia musical Seven Notes and a musical pyrotechnic show. The venue, which was familiar to our guests from past festivals, changed its usual geometry. A special arc was built over the channel, which connected the two banks and now serves as a screen for video projections, and also a tool for fire and light effects.The video mapping broadcast over the water surface of the channel is supported by bright light effects: more than a hundred fire burners, jets of two hundred light and music fountains, video and laser projections on fan-shaped water screens," Tatyana Lifantieva, president of the LBL communications group (an authorized organizer of the festival), told TASS.

In the first part of the opening, guests will see the musical "Seven Notes". "The narrator and the lead character of the light performance will be a musical apparatus installed in a cozy cafe. Every day it witnesses various events: joyful moments and sad moments, meetings and partings. However, no matter what happens, the narrator is sure that music is a universal tool, which is able to support a person both in a moment of joy and sadness, music is able to inspire and guide," the press service said.

One of the guests of the festival noted in an interview with TASS that the festival has already become a tradition for her: "This is the second festival for me, last year I was at the closing ceremony and I really enjoyed it. It’s a pretty long commute, but the show is totally worth it. Today I came with my classmates, I wanted them to see it too. It's all just a fairy tale," Ulyana Savelyeva, a student at the Moscow State University, told TASS.

Families with children, youth and older people came to the celebration. One of the guests of the festival, who wished to remain anonymous, noted that he came here by accident, but he was very happy about it nevertheless. "I live nearby and I was wondering where everyone was going. The music and light are very attractive,” he said.

The opening ceremony will end with a 15-minute musical pyrotechnic show.

Other sites

During the five days of the festival on Theater Square, where the facades of the Bolshoi, Maly theaters and RAMT are connected into a single projection screen due to special vertical planes, a light novel dedicated to the Year of the Theater in Russia and a video mapping show "Spartak" will be shown. At the same place, viewers will see the work of the finalists of the international competition "Art Vision" in the nomination "Classic" from five countries.

For the first time during the festival, its venue will be the Polytechnic Museum, which will welcome guests with architectural video mapping dedicated to the history of the famous museum and the importance of scientific and technological progress. Also, for the first time, the Ostankino Park joined the festival, whose guests will see fifteen light and video projection installations.

The territory of the Kolomenskoye Museum with an area of ​​more than one and a half hectares will be framed as a fairy forest filled with the light of installations, architectural and landscape 3D-mapping performances.

On September 22, a concert of People's Artist of Russia Dmitry Malikov will be held in Kolomenskoye.

On Academician Sakharov Avenue, viewers will see the premiere of the show "Space Odyssey", which will take the audience to the depths of space. The site of the Victory Museum for the first time will become part of the international competition "Art Vision" in the nomination "Modern". In the Arbat Hall on September 21, participants in the Art Vision Vijing contest will showcase their work. The subject of the competition will be audio-visual geometric images. During the festival, the Digital October Center will host an educational program on September 21-22, which includes lectures, panel discussions, master classes from world lighting designers.

The international festival has been held in Moscow since 2011. At the first festival, more than 360 installations were put on display, at that time the main venues of the event were Red and Manezhnaya Squares, as well as Gorky Park. The organizer of the festival is the Moscow Sports Department, and the authorized organizer, commissioned by the Moscow government since 2013, is LBL communications group.