Kirk Browning
Directing · Born Mar 28, 1921 · Died Feb 10, 2008 (86) · New York City, New York, USA
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov
2010
Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve
200610.0
The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
200610.0
Death of a Salesman
20008.3
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
1998
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
19929.0
Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago
1991
The Grapes of Wrath
199110.0
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
19909.2
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Show Boat
1989
Our Town
19899.0
An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
19888.0
A Walk in the Woods
19888.5
The House of Blue Leaves
19878.0
Turandot
19877.1
Die Fledermaus
1986
Candide
198610.0
New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1986
The Gospel at Colonus
1985
Tosca
19857.3
You Can't Take it With You
1984
La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera
19849.0
Ernani
198310.0
Alice in Wonderland
19836.8
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
1983
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
19827.0
Lucia di Lammermoor - Metropolitan Opera
19828.5
Fifth of July
19827.0
Horowitz in London
1982
Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
19827.0
Working
19824.8
American Playhouse
19826.6
Idomeneo
19828.0
Puccini: La bohème
1982
Il trittico
1981
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Live on Stage
19816.8
L'Elisir d'Amore
19818.0
Elixir of Love
19817.0
Samson et Dalila
19818.5
Big Blonde
19806.0
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
19808.0
Don Carlo
1980
Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
1979
Don Pasquale
1979
Tosca - Metropolitan Opera
19785.5
Tartuffe
19787.0
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
19789.3
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
19789.0
The Royal Family
19778.0
Rigoletto
19779.0
The Prince of Homburg
19777.0
La Bohème
19777.7
The Taming of the Shrew
19766.9
New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville
19767.0
Copland Conducts Copland
1976
The Time of Your Life
197610.0
La Traviata
19768.0
The Rules of the Game
19758.0
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
197510.0
A Touch of the Poet
197410.0
June Moon
19749.0
Enemies
1974
The Daughter of the Regiment
19747.0
Great Performances
19716.1
The Violent Universe
1969
Damn Yankees
19675.3
Lizzie Borden
1967
NET Playhouse
19667.3
Amahl and the Night Visitors
19638.0
Noah and the Flood
1962
Two by Saroyan: 'Once Around the Block' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands'
1960
Startime
19596.8
Shirley Temple's Storybook
19586.5
Mayerling
19576.1
Amahl and the Night Visitors
1955
The United States Steel Hour
19536.3
Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner
19519.0
Amahl and the Night Visitors
19518.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
19518.8
Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms
1951