In 1989, he started the "fifth period", the last, of his musical writing: He composed three operas (lyric tragedies) "Medea", first performed in Bilbao (1 October 1991), "Elektra", first performed in Luxembourg (2 May 1995) and "Antigone", first performed in Athens' Megaron Moussikis (7 October 1999). This trilogy was complemented by his last opera "Lysistrata", first performed in Athens (14 April 2002): a call for peace... With his operas, and with his song cycles from 1974 to 2006, Theodorakis ushered in the period of his "Lyrical Life".