After the success of the world premiere, Madina returns to La Scala. This is a new project in both its approach and its hemes, current but universal, and rarely expressed in ballet. The events, based on a true story, revolve around a young girl named Madina who grows up in a land devastated by a war that claims her parents. Driven by her family to carry out a suicide attack in a Western city, she chooses at the last minute not to die and not to kill, and is put on trial. It is a story of ancestral impulses, symbolic places, and the perverse dynamics of self-destructive violence, where good and evil are pitted against each other but also continue to intermix. With choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti and music composed by Fabio Vacchi to the libretto by Emmanuelle de Villepin from her novel La ragazza che non voleva morire, it is a work of both dance and theatre, where words, song, music, and body come together in a synthesis of the traditional and contemporary forms of musical theatre, breaking down the divisions mong these different forms of expression.