Directing · b. 1921 · New York City, New York, USA

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 operati...

Directed
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov 2010 The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center 2006 Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve 2006 Death of a Salesman 2000 A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere 1998 New York City Opera: The Merry Widow 1996 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall 1992 The Grapes of Wrath 1991 Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago 1991 New York City Opera: A Little Night Music 1990 William Shakespeare's Hamlet 1990 Our Town 1989 A Walk in the Woods 1988 An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti 1988 Turandot 1987 The House of Blue Leaves 1987 Die Fledermaus 1986 Candide 1986 New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1986 The Gospel at Colonus 1985 Tosca 1985 You Can't Take it With You 1984 La Forza del Destino 1984 Alice in Wonderland 1983 Ernani 1983 The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala 1983 Lucia di Lammermoor 1983 Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare 1982 Idomeneo 1982 The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel 1982 Horowitz in London 1982 Working 1982 Fifth of July 1982 Puccini: La bohème 1982 Snow White Live 1981 L'Elisir d'Amore 1981 Il trittico 1981 Elixir of Love 1981 Samson et Dalila 1981 Don Carlo 1980 Big Blonde 1980 Puccini: Manon Lescaut 1980 Don Pasquale 1979 Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera 1979 Tartuffe 1978 Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci 1978 The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni 1978 Tosca 1978 Horowitz at the White House 1978 The Royal Family 1977 Rigoletto 1977 The Prince of Homburg 1977 La Bohème 1977 New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville 1976 The Time of Your Life 1976 The Taming of the Shrew 1976 La Traviata 1976 Copland Conducts Copland 1976 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men 1975 The Rules of the Game 1975 Enemies 1974 A Touch of the Poet 1974 The Daughter of the Regiment 1974 June Moon 1974 The Violent Universe 1969 Damn Yankees 1967 Amahl and the Night Visitors 1963 Noah and the Flood 1962 Two by Saroyan: 'Once Around the Block' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands' 1960 The Christmas Tree 1958 Mayerling 1957 Amahl and the Night Visitors 1955 Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms 1951 Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner 1951 Amahl and the Night Visitors 1951
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