Esperanza Iris

[citation needed] She began her artistic career in the theater company Austri and Palacios in the play Les cloches de Corneville, which lasted for five years.

In Brazil she was named "the Queen of Operetta" and "Empress of Grace," and in Spain she was decorated by King Alfonso XIII.

[citation needed] In 1918 she constructed her own theater, the Gran Teatro Esperanza Iris, designed by architect Federico E. Mariscal [es].

[citation needed] To pay homage to her artistic career in Mexico, the state theater of Tabasco was rechristened Teatro Esperanza Iris.

Mexico City's Historical Center was named a World Heritage Site in 1987 by the United Nation's Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).