Question: Who wrote the opera in which Lalla Miranda appeared in as Olympia?

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. <SEP> 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.  After 1918 she was primarily active with the Carl Rosa Opera Company.  She retired in the early 1920s.  In New York and Philadelphia she also sang Gilda in "Rigoletto", Olympia in "The Tales of Hoffmann", and the title role in "Lakmé".  She made only a few recordings on the Pathé Records label. <SEP> 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. <SEP>  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. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann ) is an "opéra fantastique " by Jacques Offenbach.  It was Offenbach's final work, as he died a year before the premiere.