This arabian-style Opera House is a daring and visionary project initiated by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said and it is expected to bring together multiple strands of creativity and innovation in both architectural form and structural design; it will be part of a new urban center and will represent one of the most important cultural venues of the Persic Gulf area: Muscat will soon have the honour of being the only country in the region to host its own opera house. The new venue is projected to compete with the main international theaters and concert halls. Both the interior finishes quality and the technologies adopted must meet with these challenging and advanced standards. Only the best architects, consultants and contractors from all over the world are taking part to the project and Radio Marconi was invited by the Royal Court of Affairs (RCA) of the Sultanate of Oman for competing for the installation of the most advanced and reliable technology for seat-backs currently available. This technology had to fit with the design of the theater. Following technical evaluations, Radio Marconi won the competition and has been charged to install its technology in all the 1.100 seats of the theater.

Radio Marconi Mode23 technology was also recently awarded as the Most Innovative Business Impacting Network of the Year during the Cisco Innovation Award 2011. This award confirms the success achieved by the company with its innovative interactive multimedia solutions. “Radio Marconi’s “Mode 23″ is first in the world revolutionary system that turns any cultural and entertainment event into a live multimedia experience that captures the user’s attention, involvement and enthusiasm thanks to the interactive touch screen devices integrated on the seat back;  each user can choose among several video channels, and select a simultaneous translation audio and text in own language with a voting and survey capabilities. Furthermore each user can decide to visualize specific customized contents or information about the event and the sponsors and also directly purchases through an integrated credit card reader, ” says Mr. Stefano De Lissandri, President and CEO of Radio Marconi.