Uliana’s husbands, Narrator, Salesman, Kerker, and Gustave Mahler - 2 baritone voices
Chorus and Alma Mahler - 2 female voices
Insrumental combo: flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet in B flat (doubling bass clarinet), percussion (one player, see below for instruments), piano, violin, cello, double bass
percussion: suspended cymbal, vibraphone, timpani, chimes, wood blocks, xylophone, sand blocks, flex-a-tone, ratchet, roto-toms, glockenspiel, triangle, tambourine, gong