Question: Who wrote the opera in which Lalla Miranda appeared in as Olympia?
Context: Shrift was a collaboration between former Smoke City vocalist Nina Miranda and producer Dennis Wheatley.  Their debut release, "Lost In A Moment", brought together acoustic and electronic soundscapes with Miranda's vocals, drawing comparisons with Portishead.  "It's all swirling atmosphere, with fingerpicked guitars, glimmering string sections, Brazilian and synthetic percussion and gusty echoes around Ms. Miranda's limpid voice," wrote Jon Pareles in "The New York Times". Lalla Miranda (1874-1944) was an Australian coloratura soprano who was primarily active in Belgium, France, and Great Britain.  Born in Melbourne, she was the daughter of opera singers David Miranda and Annetta Hirst and the older sister of opera singer Beatrice Miranda.  After studies in London and Paris, she made her professional opera debut in The Hague in 1898.  She then appeared in numerous operas in Amsterdam in successive years.  In 1899 she was a resident artist at La Monnaie.  She made several appearances at the Palais Garnier in Paris and at theatres in the French Provences during the first two decades of the 20th century.  In 1900-1901 and from 1907-1911 she was committed the Royal Opera House on London.  In 1910 she was committed to both the Manhattan Opera Company and the Philadelphia Opera Company.  She notably opened the 1910 season at the Manhattan Opera House in the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor", a role for which she was famous.  In New York and Philadelphia she also sang Gilda in "Rigoletto", Olympia in "The Tales of Hoffmann", and the title role in "Lakmé".  After 1918 she was primarily active with the Carl Rosa Opera Company.  She retired in the early 1920s.  She made only a few recordings on the Pathé Records label. Huw Edwards is a Welsh conductor currently serving as music director of Olympia, Washington's Olympia Symphony Orchestra and orchestra conductor at the University of Puget Sound.  Edwards' conducting career began at age seventeen when he became music director of the Maidstone Opera Company in England.  He later attended the University of Surrey, where he conducted the college orchestra along with an ensemble that he formed himself.  At age twenty-three, he won a conducting competition which sent him to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.  He then held a lecturer position at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he was also a doctoral candidate.  Edwards was conductor and music director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic from 1995 to 2002 followed by the Seattle Youth Symphony from 2002 to 2005.  He served as music director of the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2012 and has been with the Olympia Symphony Orchestra since 2002.  In May 2012 Edwards accepted a position as orchestra conductor at the University of Puget Sound. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann ) is an "opéra fantastique " by Jacques Offenbach.  The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story.  It was Offenbach's final work, as he died a year before the premiere. Feramors is an opera in two acts by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Julius Rodenberg.  The story is based on "Lalla Rookh" by the Irish poet Thomas Moore.  The opera was composed in 1862. Lady Diana Cardona Miranda (Bello, Antioquia, Colombia, November 20, 1984), better known as Miranda, is a Colombian singer.  At 27 years old she appeared in the first season of Colombian musical competition La Voz Colombia, and was part of Team Ricardo Montaner winning the contest on the final held on December 20, 2012; She received a monetary prize, a contract with the label Universal Music, in addition to sharing the stage with Carlos Vives and Alejandro Sanz in Feria de Manizales.  Miranda is also the vocalist of her band Miranda & the Soul Band.  She was nominated for Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004) , is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that struck down the police practice of first obtaining an inadmissible confession without giving Miranda warnings, then issuing the warnings, and then obtaining a second confession.  Justice David Souter announced the judgment of the Court and wrote for a plurality of four justices that the second confession was admissible only if the intermediate "Miranda" warnings were "effective enough to accomplish their object."  Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a concurring opinion that the second confession should be inadmissible only if "the two-step interrogation technique was used in a calculated way to undermine the "Miranda" warning." Miranda Parker (also West) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", played by Nikki Coghill.  In 2007, the show's focus returned to focus more on family dynamics and the characters of Miranda and her family were created and introduced to help boost falling ratings in Australia.  Miranda made her first screen appearance on 23 July 2007, along with her husband, Steve (Steve Bastoni) and her daughter Bridget (Eloise Mignon).  The family moved into Ramsay Street and Miranda became friends with many of her neighbours and was employed at both Erinsborough High and Lassiter's Hotel.  Her storylines included the arrival of her sister Nicola (Imogen Bailey), breaking up and later reuniting with Steve, having an affair with her old university lecturer, becoming a grandmother and the death of her daughter.  In March 2009, the decision was taken to write the Parker family out of the show after Mignon and Bastoni quit.  Miranda departed on 24 July 2009 with her husband, following their daughter's funeral. Candy is a 1958 novel written by Maxwell Kenton, the pseudonym of Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, who wrote it in collaboration for the "dirty book" publisher Olympia Press, which published the novel as part of its "Traveller's Companion" series.  According to Hoffenberg, Terry Southern and I wrote "Candy" for the money.  Olympia Press, $500 flat.  He was in Switzerland, I was in Paris.  We did it in letters.  But when it got to be a big deal in the States, everybody was taking it seriously.  Do you remember what kind of shit people were saying?  One guy wrote a review about how "Candy" was a satire on "Candide".  So right away I went back and reread Voltaire to see if he was right.  That's what happens to you.  It's as if you vomit in the gutter and everybody starts saying it's the greatest new art form, so you go back to see it, and, by God, you have to agree. Lalla-Roukh is an "opéra comique" in two acts composed by Félicien David.  The libretto by Michel Carré and Hippolyte Lucas was based on Thomas Moore's 1817 poem "Lalla Rookh".  It was first performed on 12 May 1862 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris.  Set in Kashmir and Samarkand, the opera recounts the love story between Nourreddin, the King of Samarkand, and the Mughal princess Lalla-Roukh.  Her name means "Tulip-cheeked", a frequent term of endearment in Persian poetry.
Answer: Jacques Offenbach