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====Theatre and stage productions==== In the early 1980s Vangelis began composing for ballet and theatre stage plays.<ref name="Nemo6"/> In 1983 he wrote the music for [[Michael Cacoyannis]]' staging of the Greek [[tragedy]] ''[[Electra (Euripides)|Elektra]]'' which was performed with [[Irene Papas]] at the open-air amphitheater at [[Epidavros]] in Greece.<ref name="Spin"/> The same year Vangelis composed his first ballet score, for a production by [[Wayne Eagling]]. It was originally performed by [[Lesley Collier]] and Eagling himself at an [[Amnesty International]] gala at the [[Drury Lane theatre]].<ref name="Nemo6"/> In 1984 the [[Royal Ballet School]] presented it again at the [[Sadler's Wells]] theatre. In 1985 and 1986, Vangelis wrote music for two more ballets: "Frankenstein โ Modern Prometheus"<ref name="Nemo8"/> and "The Beauty and the Beast".<ref name="Nemo9"/> In 1992, Vangelis wrote the music for a restaging of the [[Euripides]] play ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'', that featured [[Irene Papas]].<ref name="Nemo10"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://elsew.com/data/other.htm |title=Elsewhere: Other Music |author=Dennis Lodewijks |access-date=25 September 2008 |website=Elsew.com |archive-date=18 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218151335/http://www.elsew.com/data/other.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2001 he composed for a third play which starred Papas, and for a version of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]'' staged by Hungarian director Gyรถrgy Schwajdas.<ref name="Nemo13">{{cite web |url=http://www.nemostudios.co.uk/nemo/main/vangelis/v13.htm |title=Nemo: Vangelis โ chapter 13 |website=Nemostudios.co.uk |access-date=18 August 2016 |archive-date=15 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515135145/http://www.nemostudios.co.uk/nemo/main/vangelis/v13.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
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