In Allmovie's contemporary review of the film, the website wrote, " The plot is threadbare, the acting is on a par with the clumsiest of high school plays and the direction is static and uninvolving.

Allmovie's review of the film was generally favourable, writing, " Tales from the Crypt is certainly not a great horror film, but it has a certain magnetism about it that is hard to resist and which accounts for its enduring popularity.

In addition to IMDb, Allmovie's reviewer Mark Deming gave to the film 3 / 5 stars.

Lucia Bozzola wrote of this version, " With the freedom of home video, The Complete Epic reinstated the violence that had been edited for television ; free of commercial breaks, the narrative drive of Part I was mostly restored, but the impact of Part II was still muted by the separation of Vito's rise from Michael's descent.

" Lucia Bozzola of the online database Allmovie gave the film the highest possible rating of five stars, calling it " The pinnacle of heist movies " and " not only one of the best French noirs, but one of the top movies in the genre.

Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835, a time when several factors led to the height of his reputation as a composer of opera.

In 2003 he wrote his first book A Venetian Affair, ( 2003 ) a biography of his ancestor in 18th century Venice based on their correspondence ; and a sequel entitled Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon ( 2008 ).

Lucia later wrote that they were " moved by an interior impulse ", as she was at the October 13, 1917 vision where she was heard calling " Look at the sun!

In 2011 True West voted her " Best Living Fiction Writer ," and wrote, " Lucia St. Clair Robson once again proves a master in prose, description, character development and authenticity via her diligent research.

* Complete Mapp & Lucia first editions

Nick Fury leads the heroes to Latveria to deal with Lucia von Bardas after the President does not want to take action against her illegal activities.

In the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, the word planass means to hit someone with the flat of the blade of a machete or cutlass.

Politics of Saint Lucia takes place in the framework of an independent parliamentary democratic Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, represented by a Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

The actual power in St. Lucia lies with the prime minister and the cabinet, usually representing the majority party in parliament.

The governing United Workers Party, and the opposition St Lucia Labour Party, along with the newly formed Lucian People's Movement, are expected to contest the next elections.

The United States Armed Forces considers St. Lucia as a partner nation in the Caribbean, along with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

St. Lucia participated, along with 14 other Caribbean nations, in a summit with US President Bill Clinton in Bridgetown, Barbados, in May 1997.

St. Lucia had official diplomatic relations with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) for about 13 years, but switched recognition to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1997.

On May 1, 2007, St. Lucia regained diplomatic relations with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

African slaves, whether shipwrecked or escaped from St. Lucia or Grenada and seeking refuge in St. Vincent, intermarried with the Caribs and became known as " black Caribs ".

The United States Armed Forces consider Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a partner nation in the Caribbean, along with St. Lucia.

* Muzio Sforza with mistress Lucia da Torsano had 7 illegitimate sons

It was also in accord with the desire of the Transvaal Boers to obtain a seaport, a desire which had led them as early as 1860 to negotiate with the Zulus for the possession of St Lucia Bay.

In March 2011, the Tommy James song I'm Alive ( co-written with Peter Lucia ) became a top 20 hit in the Netherlands for UK singer Don Fardon after his version had been used in a Vodafone commercial.

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

The first production of the opera actually produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mario Ancona as Marcello.

After the success of Lucrezia Borgia ( 1833 ) consolidated his reputation, Donizetti followed the paths of both Rossini and Bellini by visiting Paris, but his opera Marin Faliero suffered by comparison with Bellini's I puritani, and he returned to Naples to produce his already-mentioned masterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor.

As she gained composure during the second act, her technical resourcefulness emerged stronger, though she had already revealed a trill almost unprecedented in years of performances of `` Lucia ''.

In 1904 for the Gramophone ( and Typewriter Company ) he accompanied the tenor Fernando De Lucia in L ' anima ho stanca from Adriana Lecouvreur and in the song Luntananza, an effort which critic Michael Henstock ( in his biography of De Lucia ) declares is hardly inspired by De Lucia's fine performances.

Zeffirelli also collaborated often with Dame Joan Sutherland, designing and directing her performances of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1959 amongst others.

In 2010, LuPone created the role of Lucia in the original Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which opened at the Belasco Theatre on November 4, 2010, and closed on January 2, 2011, after 23 previews and 69 regular performances.

In 1915, she sang two performances of Lucia di Lammermoor with Enrico Caruso in Buenos Aires.

She is best known for her performances as Violetta in La traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Mimì ( and occasionally Musetta ) in La bohème, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Adina in L ' elisir d ' amore, Liù in Turandot, Nedda in Pagliacci, all three leading soprano roles in Puccini's Il trittico, Adriana Lecouvreur, and Francesca in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini.

HGO's 2011 – 2012 season consists of 31 performances of six mainstage productions: The Barber of Seville, Fidelio, La traviata, The Rape of Lucretia, Don Carlos and Mary Stuart. Albina Shagimuratova in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor-2011

She remained loyal to Hammerstein and appeared at the Met for only one season, in 1911-12 ( giving just eight performances, in the roles of Lucia, Violetta, and Gilda ).

During the festival, many world-class performers such as soloists and virtuosi, orchestras, dance companies, rock and jazz groups including Ray Charles, Paco de Lucia, Joan Baez, Martha Graham Dance Company, Tanita Tikaram, Jethro Tull, Leningrad Philarmonic Orchestra, Chris De Burgh, Sting, Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Garbarek, Red Army Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Chick Corea and Origin, New York City Ballet, Nigel Kennedy, Bryan Adams, God Is An Astronaut, James Brown, Elton John, Anathema, Kiri Te Kanawa, Mikhail Barishnikov and Josep Carreras have given recitals and performances at various venues in the city and its surrounding areas ; including the ancient theatres at Ephesus and Metropolis ( an ancient Ionian city situated near the town of Torbalı.

Her most frequent performances were as Lucia ( 93 performances ), Lakmé ( 50 performances ), Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto ( 49 performances ), and Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville ( 33 performances ).

Since 2007, he conducted a series of performances in a few opera houses around the U. S. ( Florida Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre ), and now is mostly involved with the Opera Australia company ( Lucia di Lammermoor in August 2008, and in 2006 for Opera Queensland ; I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Melbourne and Sydney in middle of 2009 ).

Early performances were mostly Russian operas, including Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka, Rusalka by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Maccabees by Anton Rubinstein and The Enemy's Power by A. Serov, as well translated European operas including The Barber of Sevile by Rossini, The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, The Magic Archer by Weber, Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, and also operas by Giuseppe Verdi, which became the favorite of the Kievites.

In the Philippine Cup, Sta Lucia was able to pull off a surprising start in the conference, due to great performances by their young player such as Williams, Cabagnot and veterans Marlou Aquino, Dennis Espino, and Kenneth Duremdes.

The upcoming 2012 season will include performances of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Manon Lescaut.