
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

Rigoletto

The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center

Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve

La Bohème

New York City Opera: A Little Night Music

Our Town

Idomeneo

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Death of a Salesman

The Royal Family

Samson et Dalila

An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti

Amahl and the Night Visitors

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

Fifth of July

Donizetti L'Elisir D'Amore

Tosca

The Taming of the Shrew

Alice in Wonderland

American Playhouse

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The United States Steel Hour

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Snow White Live

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Startime

Great Performances

Mayerling

Big Blonde

Damn Yankees

Working

The Grapes of Wrath

Noah and the Flood

You Can't Take it With You

Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago

New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville

Enemies

Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

The Time of Your Life

A Touch of the Poet

La Forza del Destino

L'Elisir d'Amore

Don Carlo

Die Fledermaus

Don Pasquale

Candide

The Daughter of the Regiment

Tartuffe

Ernani

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

Il trittico

La Traviata

Amahl and the Night Visitors

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

The Gospel at Colonus

Horowitz in London

A Walk in the Woods

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner

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

The Rules of the Game

The Prince of Homburg

The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala

Lucia di Lammermoor

Tosca

Puccini: Manon Lescaut

New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Puccini: La bohème

The House of Blue Leaves

June Moon

The Violent Universe

Copland Conducts Copland

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov

Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera