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Kirk Browning
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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As director
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov
The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve
Death of a Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
New York City Opera: The Merry Widow
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
The Grapes of Wrath
Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Our Town
A Walk in the Woods
An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
Turandot
The House of Blue Leaves
Die Fledermaus
Candide
New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Gospel at Colonus
Tosca
You Can't Take it With You
La Forza del Destino
Alice in Wonderland
Ernani
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
Lucia di Lammermoor
Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
Idomeneo
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel