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Pompei: Below the Clouds
CINEMA — With lots of reverence and little romanticism, director Gianfranco Rosi delivers an unprecedented portrait of Naples
The soil, air, and sea beneath Mount Vesuvius is steeped in memories that recount the catastrophic 79 AD eruption which interred the prosperous Roman city of Pompeii and its populace. Contemporary life in this region absorbs both this impression and the enduring threat of history’s repetition, yet, isn’t overcome by a nostalgia that confines it. Like everywhere, people go on living, as Gianfranco Rosi’s 2025 film Pompei: Below the Clouds goes to show.
Death of a Salesman at Stratford Festival
THEATRE | Arthur Miller’s classic feels newly urgent in an era of AI anxiety, economic precarity, and generational uncertainty.
Stratford Festival’s 2026 season is well underway, and Cannopy sent its trusted performing arts critic, Sotto Voce, to review some of the most anticipated theatre productions of this season. First stop: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
Your Guide to this year’s Toronto Summer Music Festival
MUSIC — 10 Must-See Concerts at the 2026 Festival, plus an Exclusive Sit-Down with Incoming Artistic Director William Fedkenheuer
The first time I attended the Toronto Summer Music Festival, back in 2019, I remember milling about in Walter Hall during intermission at a concert when this elderly man came up to me. We locked eyes just across the way when he started making his way over, and immediately I thought, “uh oh, here we go, brace for impact...”
Allison Russell: Are You In Love?
MUSIC — The Canadian-American artist talks love and shares the latest single from her upcoming third studio album, “In the Hour of Chaos”.
For the next issue of Cannopy Magazine, we’re asking artists a simple question: Are You In Love? We want to get a sense of how they fell in love with their latest project, and how the many loves of their lives can be channeled into one artistic vessel. Next up: Allison Russell
Sound of Falling
CINEMA — Rural decay, inherited trauma, long silences—when did arthouse cinema become so predictable?
Trauma. Memory. Grief. One begins to suspect there exists somewhere a pan-European grant application where applicants simply circle three approved nouns and receive €800,000 and a Cannes slot. This is not entirely the fault of the filmmakers. The economics of contemporary arthouse cinema practically require this kind of internationally legible seriousness.
Caroline Ji: Are You In Love?
VISUAL ARTS — In this Studio Sessions conversation, the Toronto artist traces the colours, spaces, and questions shaping her evolving practice.
For the next issue of Cannopy Magazine, we’re asking artists a simple question: Are You In Love? We want to get a sense of how they fell in love with their latest project, and how the many loves of their lives can be channeled into one artistic vessel. Next up: Toronto’s Caroline Ji
Notes from the Recording No. 2: Pastoral
In the second instalment of Notes From the Recording, we turn towards Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony through the lens of vinyl culture featuring a recording by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Moving between personal listening reflections and broader musical history, this instalment considers how recordings of the Sixth Symphony have long wrestled with Beethoven’s own resistance to overt programmatic storytelling, while also reflecting on the nostalgia and visual language that surround classical records themselves. As with the series’ first entry, this entry treats the act of listening not simply as consumption, but as a lived ritual shaped by memory, collecting, and the physicality of recorded sound.
Sunday Special #1
Featuring Stephan Moccio, Hali Sofala-Jones, Jon Batiste, and an Arugula salad
Sunday Special is a new series we’re starting to capture our editorial content in a Sunday dish. This is a straightforward offering: one Sunday a month we’ll arrive in your inbox with a mix of music, poetry, something for your kitchen, and a fitting editorial highlight.
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