<P> Musical theatre and grand opera sometimes incorporate a singing chorus that sometimes serves a similar purpose as the Greek chorus, as noted in Six Plays by Rodgers and Hammerstein: "The singing chorus is used frequently to interpret the mental and emotional reactions of the principal characters, after the manner of a Greek chorus ." </P> <P> During the Italian Renaissance, there was a renewed interest in the theatre of ancient Greece . The Florentine Camerata crafted the first operas out of the intermezzi that acted as comic or musical relief during the dramas of the time . These were based entirely on the Greek chorus, as historian H.C. Montgomery argues . </P> <P> Richard Wagner discussed Greek drama and the Greek chorus extensively in his writings, including "Art and Revolution". His longest work, Der Ring des Nibelungen, (The Ring of the Nibelung) is based in the style of Oresteia with parallels in rhythm and overall structure (both have three parts, with the exception of Das Rheingold, the prelude to The Ring of the Nibelung). Wagner said of himself, "History gave me a model also for that ideal relation of the theater to the public which I had in mind . I found it in the drama of Ancient Athens". A Greek chorus is also used in the Woody Allen film Mighty Aphrodite, in which the chorus gives advice to the neurotic main character . </P>

Four different roles of the chorus in an ancient greek play