 Ed Di Lello composed, orchestrated, conducted and staged "Purgatory" as an opera on a double bill with Yeats' "The Cat and the Moon" produced by Philip Meister and Maurice Edwards at The Cubiculo in New York City in March 1974.An unreleased recording of Purgatory is found in the Billy Rose Collection of the New York Public Library.A television version of "Purgatory" was featured on University Broadcast Lab on WNYC-TV in 1974.