Soul Threads Ballet

Order tickets
December 2025
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
Su

 

Die Seele Am Faden / Soul Threads | Ballet
Dance performance with FRIEDEMANN VOGEL
Based on the text The Puppet Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist

Program and cast

Concept and Direction: Friedemann Vogel and Thomas Lempertz

 

Composition and Live Music: Alisa Scetinina (GAISMA)
Digital Artist: Timo Kreitz
Sets and Costumes: Thomas Lempertz
Lights: Fabiana Piccioli

 

A Kleist Forum production in collaboration with the Kleist Museum

Teatro Nazionale

The current Teatro Nazionale, located in Via del Viminale on the corner of Via Agostino Depretis, was born as a cinema hall, Supercinema, built in 1925. The owner, ‘commendatore’ Urbano Rattazzi, committed the design to architects Arnaldo Foschini and Attilio Spaccarelli, along with engineer Giacomo Giobbe. Inserted within a pre-existent building, the hall was created with a 36m long and 30m wide room, and, initially, a 2,300 people seating plan, overhead seating area and galleries. Italian Stile Liberty interior decoration was enriched with golden plaster, paintings, stone and fabrics. Although its primary function was that of cinema hall, the presence of a prompter’s box means that other kind of shows, such as variety shows and curtain raisers, took place in alternation.

 

After WWII, the venue was used only as cinema hall, for which it was created at the very beginning.

 

At the end of the 1990s, Supercinema was bought by Rome Council and given to Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as a further venue. In 2006, the last of many restorations was accomplished, giving the hall its current look, now able to host around 500 people.

Related events