Royal Academy of Music (company)

The Royal Academy of Music was an opera company, which was founded in 1719 in London under the patronage of George I. For a permanent Italian opera was opened, which drew the then known European soloists to England. Venue was the King's Theatre in London's Haymarket. While Johann Jacob Heidegger took over the commercial management, was George Frideric Handel musical director of the Royal Academy of Music and has composed a number of operas for them, for example Radamisto ( 1720), Giulio Cesare (1724 ) and Rodelinda ( 1725).

1728, the company was due to the economic failures again. Had contributed to this, not least John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch with The Beggar's Opera, a satire on Italian opera seria.

After a season break Heidegger and Handel went on to found the New Academy, or Second Academy and recorded the Haymarket Theatre in this way to 1734th Then the second Academy disbanded, Handel moved into the Covent Garden Theatre, and Heidegger rented the King's Theatre at the Opera of the Nobility.

Source

• Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (ed.): Brockhaus Riemann music encyclopedia, Schott, Mainz 1979
• Carole Taylor: opera companies in: Landgraf, Annette and Vickers, David, The Cambridge Encyclopedia trade, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0521881920, pp. 449ff.

• Opera Ensemble
• Georg Friedrich Händel
• Established in 1719
• Former Company ( London)
• Organization ( 18th century )