Samsung G800 Stars in Opera ‘Nibelungenring'

Samsung's G800, a 5 mega-pixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom, is playing a key role in the opera ‘Wagners Nibelungenring for children’, reports Newswire Korea.

Cell phones have played in many concerts but "it is the first time a mobile phone is playing a key supporting role in an opera and is even mentioned in the official casting list.

Nibelungenring for Children has been playing at the Vienna State Opera from November 17, already attracting 1,000 audience. It plans to run until the end of this year.

“This independent play is meant to spark children's interest for Wagner’s world. With Samsung’s unique camera phone we're able to give a mobile phone an active role in an opera for the first time and thus create a link from virtual mythology to today’s reality," said Matthias von Stegmann.

... The SGH-G800 fulfills several roles in the play: It takes a picture of the sleeping Bruennhilde, it shows the picture to Siegfried and is therefore essential for the progression of the story.

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