Prologue: Late morning in spring, 1900 - The Alabama town of Bowden, veranda of the Giddens house
Opera Orchestra of New York, Joshua Hecht, George S. Irving, Brenda Lewis, Ernest McChesney, Carol Brice, Helen Strine, Samuel Krachmalnick, Loren Driscoll, Andrew Frierson, New York City Opera Chorus, Emile Renan, Elizabeth Carron
Act I: Living room of the Giddens house, the same evening
Brenda Lewis, Samuel Krachmalnick, Loren Driscoll, Carol Brice, Helen Strine, Opera Orchestra of New York, Joshua Hecht, Emile Renan, Elizabeth Carron, Ernest McChesney, George S. Irving, Andrew Frierson, New York City Opera Chorus
Act II Scene 1: Living room of the Giddens house, a week later, evening
George S. Irving, Brenda Lewis, New York City Opera Chorus, Emile Renan, Elizabeth Carron, Joshua Hecht, Carol Brice, Helen Strine, Ernest McChesney, Samuel Krachmalnick, Loren Driscoll, Andrew Frierson, Opera Orchestra of New York
Act II Scene 2: Ballroom and veranda of the Giddens house, the same night
Samuel Krachmalnick, Loren Driscoll, Andrew Frierson, George S. Irving, New York City Opera Chorus, Emile Renan, Elizabeth Carron, Joshua Hecht, Brenda Lewis, Ernest McChesney, Opera Orchestra of New York, Carol Brice, Helen Strine
Act III: Living room of the Giddens house, the next afternoon
Carol Brice, Helen Strine, George S. Irving, Opera Orchestra of New York, Brenda Lewis, Andrew Frierson, Emile Renan, Elizabeth Carron, Samuel Krachmalnick, Loren Driscoll, Joshua Hecht, Ernest McChesney, New York City Opera Chorus