 It also retains the minimalism of the play, and the spiritual element, but Crosse avoids using Japanese musical motifs associated with Noh, unlike Benjamin Britten, whose contemporaneous parables beginning with "Curlew River" are more obviously musically inspired by Noh.Two additional operatic settings include one by Hugo Weisgall written in 1958, and Mark Lanz Weiser's setting (1990) premièring at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 1991.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.