
Kirk Browning
Biography
Kirk Browning (March 28, 1921 – February 10, 2008) was an American television director and producer who had hundreds of productions to his credit, including 185 broadcasts of Live from Lincoln Center.
Born in New York City, Browning dropped out of Cornell University after attending for only one month and moved to Waco, Texas, where he was hired as a newspaper reporter. Because of a childhood injury, he was rejected by the United States Army when he tried to enlist during World War II, so he worked as an ambulance driver in England and France. In the late 1940s, he was a chicken farmer operating an egg route in Ridgefield, Connecticut when one of his customers offered him a job in the music library at NBC. The clerical position led to his directing live televised performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Soon after he was made a stage manager of the network's newly formed opera company, and he later became its Director.
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Directing (76 movies)

The Grapes of Wrath
1991
The Flood
1962

You Can't Take it With You
1984

Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago
1991

New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville
1976

Snow White Live
1981

Enemies
1974

Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
1982

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
1975

The Time of Your Life
1976

The Royal Family
1977

Our Town
1989

Death of a Salesman
2000

Turandot
1987

La Forza del Destino
1984

Alice in Wonderland
1983

Rigoletto
1977

The Taming of the Shrew
1976

A Touch of the Poet
1974

Mayerling
1957

L'Elisir d'Amore
1981

Don Carlo
1980

Die Fledermaus
1986

Don Pasquale
1979

Idomeneo
1982

New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
1990

Candide
1986

The Daughter of the Regiment
1974

Tartuffe
1978

Ernani
1983

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
1982

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
1978

Il trittico
1981

La Traviata
1976

Amahl and the Night Visitors
1963

Amahl and the Night Visitors
1955

Two by Saroyan: 'Once Around the Block' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands'
1960

The Light in the Piazza (Live from Lincoln Center)
2006

The Gospel at Colonus
1985
New York City Opera: The Merry Widow
1996

Horowitz in London
1982

Working
1982

Fifth of July
1982

A Walk in the Woods
1988

Elixir of Love
1981

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms
1951

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner
1951

The Rules of the Game
1975

The Prince of Homburg
1977

Big Blonde
1980
The Christmas Tree
1958

Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve
2006

Samson et Dalila
1981

The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
1983

An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
1988

Lucia di Lammermoor
1983

Damn Yankees
1967

Amahl and the Night Visitors
1951

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
1978

La Bohème
1977

Tosca
1985

Tosca
1978

Puccini: Manon Lescaut
1980

New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1986

Puccini: La bohème
1982

The House of Blue Leaves
1987

June Moon
1974

The Violent Universe
1969

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992

Copland Conducts Copland
1976

William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Horowitz at the White House
1978

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
1998

Noah and the Flood
1962

Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov
2010

Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
1979
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