Kirk Browning
DirectingKirk 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
Filmography — Crew
Mayerling
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Working
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Tartuffe
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Big Blonde
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Enemies
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New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
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The Gospel at Colonus
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Alice in Wonderland
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Tosca
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Damn Yankees
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Our Town
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The House of Blue Leaves
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Death of a Salesman
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June Moon
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Fifth of July
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The Christmas Tree
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Candide
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The Time of Your Life
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Noah and the Flood
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Rigoletto
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Turandot
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Don Carlo
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A Touch of the Poet
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The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
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The Rules of the Game
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Idomeneo
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La Forza del Destino
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Il trittico
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La Bohème
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The Royal Family
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Ernani
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You Can't Take it With You
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An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
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The Violent Universe
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Puccini: La bohème
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Two by Saroyan: 'Once Around the Block' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands'
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Horowitz at the White House
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L'Elisir d'Amore
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
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A Walk in the Woods
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Don Pasquale
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
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Die Fledermaus
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
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Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
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Tosca
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New York City Opera: The Merry Widow
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
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The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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Elixir of Love
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New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville
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A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
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Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
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Lucia di Lammermoor
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Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago
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The Prince of Homburg
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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La Traviata
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Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms
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Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
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Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve
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Snow White Live
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Samson et Dalila
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Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov
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New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Copland Conducts Copland
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Horowitz in London
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Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner
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The Daughter of the Regiment
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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