The so-called " aria della piovra " (" Octopus aria ") " Un dì, ero piccina " in Pietro Mascagni's opera Iris ( 1898 ), on a libretto by Luigi Illica, may have been inspired by this print.

As part of a drive to improve artistic standards " Opera Holland Park " was established in 1996 to produce all future productions, and in recent years the company has enjoyed a long string of hits with major achievements in productions of more obscure repertoire such as Mascagni's Iris, Cilea's L ' arlesiana, and many others.

In common with all of Mascagni's full-length operas, Iris is now rarely performed, even in Italy, although along with L ' Amico Fritz it remains one of the composer's more performed operas.

Throughout her career she participated in several world premieres, including originating the title roles in Puccini's Tosca, Mascagni's Iris, and Catalani's La Wally.

Highlights of her later career in Italy from 1890 on included the world-premières of the part of Odalea in Antônio Carlos Gomes ' Condor at La Scala in Milan in 1891, the title-role in Alfredo Catalani's La Wally at the same theater in 1892, Luisa in Mascagni's I Rantzau at the Teatro della Pergola in 1892, and the title roles in Pietro Mascagni's Iris and Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, both at Teatro Costanzi in Rome in 1899 and 1900, respectively.

This was augmented on 24 June 1943 by a long cable between Cemaes Bay in Anglesea and Port Erin, which had the world's first submerged repeater, laid by HMCS Iris.

In the first serial, “ The Wrong End of Time ”, Simon, whose mother has died recently, has been taken on holiday by the Skinner family – father Frank ( Derek Benfield ), mother Jean ( Iris Russell ) and daughter Liz – to the village of St Oswald.

The first diesel ferry to enter service was the Royal Iris in 1951.

While there he designed his first aero engine and had the first prototype made by Iris Motor Company of Willesden.

He was in a relationship first with Iris Bates, with whom he has two children, daughter Heather ( born in 1985 ) and son Jack ( born in 1989 ).

Her bridesmaids were her first cousins Princesses Irene, Eugenie and Katherine of Greece and Denmark, her maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, her husband's niece Princess Elizabeth of York, and her husband's cousins the Lady Iris Mountbatten and the Lady Mary Cambridge.

The song " Iris ", by the Goo Goo Dolls, was played during Lavigne and Whibley's first dance.

Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden ( November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979 ) was an aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix Trophy.

( U. Conn ), were issued a first of its kind, broad patent # 4, 641, 349 entitled " Iris Recognition Technology.

These were directed by Iris Lemare ( 1902 – 1997 ) and produced by Geoffrey Dunn ( 1903 – 1981 ), a prominent impresario, actor and cinematographer, and included several first British performances of operas.

Iris Pamela Price was born in Bransgore, Hampshire, and had her first play – a tale of goblins and elves – staged when she was eight by her fellow pupils at primary school.

Johnston and his first wife rented in Britten Street, Glen Iris, for a brief period in 1938 – 39.

Davis first became popular in daytime television playing opposite Beverlee McKinsey as her character Iris Cory's formear Mr, Elliot Carrington, on the soap opera Texas, a spin-off of Another World, from October 1980 through December 1981.

In 2008, Iris released their first CD / DVD combo, Hydra.

His earlier story Kakitsubata (“ The Crazy Iris ”, first published in 1951 ) deals with similar themes.

An example of crossover to her husband's work, Auster used Iris, the narrator of Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, in his novel Leviathan.

Within a matter of weeks, Iris reconnected and became romantically involved with her first love, Alex Wheeler ( Bert Kramer ).

His daughter Lady Sybil Cuffe was the mother of the writer Iris Origo through her first husband William Bayard Cutting.

In December 2009, Lee Jung Hyun sung her first ballad for the soundtrack of the Korean TV drama " Iris.

Additionally, Luis was the second of three tropical cyclones to affect Guadeloupe in a short period of time, the first being Hurricane Iris a week before and the last being Hurricane Marilyn only ten days afterward.

The disagreement between Olympique Lillois and Iris Club led to the first merger dissolving.

A character named Iris Wildthyme first appears in one of Magrs's non-genre novels, Marked for Life.

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

In Angela Carter's Wise Children, To be or not to be is reworked as a song and dance routine, and Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince has Oedipal themes and murder intertwined with a love affair between a Hamlet-obsessed writer, Bradley Pearson, and the daughter of his rival.

Other similarities include the fact that some Accompong Maroons formation bear the passing resemblance to the Irish reel ; and the Jamaican Constabulary is patterned after the Royal Iris Constabulary, complete with the red stripe on the pants leg.

**( Only available with automatic gearbox ) " Iris blue " metallic and " Amazon green " metallic color with Classic grey leather interior.

Many Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, while since the beginning of the 1990s the hip hop / rap scene has developed a unique sound and indigenous style.

It was originally associated with Iris printing process.

* Iris-The only robot with visual sensors, Iris can provide visual descriptions of locations and objects.

The Teichoscopy begins with Helen approached in her chamber by Iris, disguised as her sister-in-law Laodice, the daughter of Priam.

Morales is of Puerto Rican descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents Iris Margarita ( née Declet ), a union activist involved with the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union, and Esai Morales, Sr., a welder.

Neurons ( 40 × 40 square grid ) are trained for 250 iterations with a learning rate of 0. 1 using the normalized Iris flower data set which has four-dimensional data vectors.

* Iris and Infant Hermes with Caduceus

The town and its vicinity has been used as the setting for numerous films and television programmes, including Iris about the life of Iris Murdoch starring Judi Dench ; Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway ; Kavanagh QC starring John Thaw ; ' East of Ipswich ' by Michael Palin ; Little Britain with Matt Lucas and David Walliams ; and a 1969 version of David Copperfield.

When she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he wrote the book Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, which was made into the 2001 film Iris by Richard Eyre.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

In Euripides ' play Heracles, Iris appears alongside Lyssa, cursing Heracles with the fit of madness in which he kills his three sons and his wife Megara.

Iris is represented either as a rainbow, or as a young maiden with wings on her shoulders.

As a goddess, Iris is associated with communication, messages, the rainbow and new endeavors.

Iris compared with fleur-de-lis ornament ( architecture ) | ornament in French

Much later, in conjunction with Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, Lotus also released a groupware and email system, Lotus Notes.