In 2017, Donald Trump had just successfully concluded his campaign for the US presidency when John Neumeier premiered his full-length ballet in Hamburg. In 2025, Trump enters his second presidency, and the new production seems to commemorate this. A major election campaign, in any case, on the Stuttgart stage: Even though the posters depict a certain Karenin vying for the audience's favor, everyone immediately thinks of someone else. David Moore is no spitting image of Donald Trump, and he is much younger, more dynamic, and more elegant, but the way he presents himself, legs apart, repeatedly asserting his importance, one might think Neumeier had taken his measurements from a living model.
Despite all the alienation, the label "Inspired by Leo Tolstoy" is justified. But unlike, for ...
