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On-demand streaming adds a new dimension to Carnegie Hall’s spring 2024 festival, Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice. Watch fully staged productions of essential Weimar-era operas, like Berg’s Lulu directed by Patrice Chéreau and led by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera, and Berg’s Wozzeck as imagined by William Kentridge and performed at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic.

There is also Sir Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and a chorus of 500 in Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, the Munich Philharmonic in a riveting hometown performance of Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler with conductor Zubin Mehta and violinist Midori, Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat, and Berg’s Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich and the Vienna Philharmonic led by Andris Nelsons.

Documentaries include Schoenberg’s Who I Am, featuring interviews with the composer’s daughter; and Music Is Music: A Portrait of Barbara Hannigan, providing behind-the-scenes access to rare rehearsal footage of Berg’s tragic Lulu. There are also concert programs like Salon with Renée Fleming offering world-class performances of works by Schoenberg, Korngold, and Richard Strauss; and a dynamic performance by Max Raabe with his Palast Orchester.

Salzburg Festival: Berg’s Violin Concerto

Soloist Augustin Hadelich performs Berg’s Violin Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic under Andris Nelsons. This 20th-century masterpiece offers a poignant vision of death and the life beyond.

Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, a chorus of 500 voices, and soloists who include Karen Cargill and Eva-Maria Westbroek in Schoenberg’s overwhelming late-Romantic cantata, with Thomas Quasthoff as the Speaker.

Berlin State Opera: Berg’s Lulu

Berg’s opera follows a woman who destroys her lovers and ultimately herself. Daniel Barenboim leads this nuanced performance at the Berlin State Opera, with soprano Mojca Erdmann in the title role and a staging by Patrice Chéreau.

Arnold Schoenberg: Who I Am

This documentary paints a portrait of one of music’s great pioneers: Viennese-born composer Arnold Schoenberg. The film features interviews with the composer’s daughter, Nuria Schoenberg Nono, and conductor-pianist Daniel Barenboim.

Hindemith’s Cardillac

Hindemith set his 1926 opera—an ode to artistic license—in 17th-century Paris. In this Bavarian State Opera production led by Wolfgang Sawallisch, stage director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle draws inspiration from 1920s German Expressionist film.

Max Raabe: Let’s Do It

In this concert at Berlin’s Admiralspalast theater, Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester present enchanting music of the 1920s and ’30s from both sides of the Atlantic, including songs by Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill, and more.