Kirk Browning
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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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La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera (1984)
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut (1980)
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Lucia di Lammermoor - Metropolitan Opera (1982)
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Tosca - Metropolitan Opera (1978)
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Live on Stage (1981)
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The Grapes of Wrath (1991)
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Tartuffe (1978)
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The Taming of the Shrew (1976)
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Noah and the Flood (1962)
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The House of Blue Leaves (1987)
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La Bohème (1977)
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992)
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A Touch of the Poet (1974)
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Big Blonde (1980)
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Death of a Salesman (2000)
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You Can't Take it With You (1984)
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New York City Opera: A Little Night Music (1990)
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The Rules of the Game (1975)
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The Gospel at Colonus (1985)
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June Moon (1974)
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1990)
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Two by Saroyan: 'Once Around the Block' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands' (1960)
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (1975)
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Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera (1979)
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The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center (2006)
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The Prince of Homburg (1977)
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Elixir of Love (1981)
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The Time of Your Life (1976)
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Fifth of July (1982)
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Alice in Wonderland (1983)
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Mayerling (1957)
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Our Town (1989)
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A Walk in the Woods (1988)
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A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere (1998)
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Working (1982)
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala (1983)
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The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (1982)
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Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare (1982)
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Turandot (1987)
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Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951)
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Candide (1986)
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The Royal Family (1977)
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New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1986)
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The Letter (1956)
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Damn Yankees (1967)
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An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti (1988)
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New York City Opera: The Merry Widow (1996)
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Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner (1951)
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New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville (1976)
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Amahl and the Night Visitors (1963)
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The Violent Universe (1969)
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Horowitz at the White House (1978)
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The Christmas Tree (1958)
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L'Elisir d'Amore (1981)
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Enemies (1974)
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (1978)
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Amahl and the Night Visitors (1955)
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Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (1978)
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Show Boat (1989)
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Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve (2006)
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Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov (2010)
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Puccini: La bohème (1982)
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The Daughter of the Regiment (1974)
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Idomeneo (1982)
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Ernani (1983)
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La Traviata (1976)
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Rigoletto (1977)
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Il trittico (1981)
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Samson et Dalila (1981)
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Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms (1951)
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Copland Conducts Copland (1976)
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Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago (1991)
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Don Carlo (1980)
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Tosca (1985)
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Don Pasquale (1979)
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Die Fledermaus (1986)
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Horowitz in London (1982)
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Lizzie Borden (1967)
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