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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