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Royal Academy of Music

Company founded to support the performance of operas by Händel in London

The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel's residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of opera seria. It is not connected to the London conservatoire with the same name, which was founded in 1822. It commissioned large numbers of new operas from three of the leading composers in Europe: Handel, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Bononcini.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Italian Opera House at the Haymarket (colour)
Photo: William Capon (1757–1827), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel's residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of opera seria. It is not connected to the London conservatoire with the same name, which was founded in 1822.2

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