House programmes and librettos
Bilingual librettos, per-concert programmes and vocal scores on FSC-certified paper, with print runs separated by programme and concert day.
Scheduled · Mediterranean coast, Spain
For Mexican early music ensembles, choirs, chamber groups and producers taking Mediterranean repertoire to a festival on the Spanish coast — bilingual librettos, programmes, cast apparel and post-tour gifts delivered to the venue or to your tour hotel.
The Festival Internacional Mediterráneo de Música is one of the most coveted dates on the Spanish summer calendar, and the Mexican ensembles that cross the Atlantic to perform Mediterranean repertoire outside competition typically bring a tight agenda: dress rehearsal, gala concert, morning session for specialist critics, and the complementary tour through allied theatres in Barcelona, Palma and Valencia. Each one of those stops needs different material in format and quantity, and bundling everything into a single lot is the classic recipe for arriving at the dressing room on opening night with librettos printed for the wrong programme.
For a typical Mexican ensemble — say, ten performers, guest conductor, technical crew of four and artistic production — the merch programme splits into three clearly differentiated allocations. The house allocation is built around the theatre audience: bilingual librettos, programmes per concert, sheets with footnotes about the repertoire on stage, plus vocal scores for attendees who want to follow the score during the performance. This is the line that leaves production first and carries the most weight in the warehouse, since each concert loads its own print run.
The cast and guest allocation is built separately: T-shirts and hoodies with the ensemble name and the tour for performers who spend whole days in the theatre; courtesy librettos for guest soloists joining one or two concerts; compact gifts for guest musicians and the technical team. These volumes usually travel as checked luggage with the production director, not as consolidated freight, because any delay at Barajas or El Prat customs means performers without scores at the dress rehearsal.
The third allocation covers tour and relationships: compact boxes for allied theatre programmers, festival producers with whom the next season is closing, and representatives of the cultural press covering the concerts. This is the line where merch becomes a working tool months after the concert: a box well assembled in the dressing room of the festival turns into a programming email the following summer. We bet on FSC-certified cotton paper for librettos, high-grammage card for programmes and organic cotton textiles or lyocell blends for cast apparel.
Mexican ensembles taking Mediterranean repertoire to Europe usually invoice the full order from Mexico under the definitive export scheme — a pedimento code that their customs broker files before shipping — with a CFDI 4.0 Egreso issued at closing and payments complement in MXN. Carta Porte 3.0 travels with the international freight leg: if the consolidated shipment leaves from Toluca airport or AICM and is delivered to the European venue, their agent at destination needs the XML for local clearance; if the ensemble prefers to ship librettos from CDMX via an international courier and the rest as checked luggage, we issue separate CFDI per leg so every lot closes clean.
For ensembles also moving personnel under the artists-and-technicians-abroad scheme — the operational equivalent of IMMEX for cultural services — cast and guest merch usually gets documented as part of tour equipment, while house programmes and relationship gifts travel as promotional material with a commercial value declared at customs. The 16% IVA line applies only to the national component; the rest is invoiced without IVA charged under export. We help you separate the lots from the brief so your customs broker does not need to repack anything at the Barajas counter.
For Mexican producers coordinating the tour with a routing hub in Miami or Madrid, we can sync the delivery of the relationship promotional material in two windows: a pre-concert one for press and allied programmers, and a post-concert one for the programmer network the director visits in the following weeks. That second window is where well-assembled VIP boxes travel to theatres in Lisbon, Tunis or Tel Aviv with the same brand face, which is why we watch packaging and grammage from the brief.
Bilingual librettos, per-concert programmes and vocal scores on FSC-certified paper, with print runs separated by programme and concert day.
T-shirts, hoodies and light jackets with the ensemble name and tour in organic cotton or lyocell blends, sized for performers and technical crew.
Courtesy librettos, ensemble recordings and archive material reserved for critics and allied programmers covering the concert.
Compact boxes assembled per recipient for allied theatre programmers, festival producers closing the next season and international cultural press.
Before starting production, confirm print runs per concert, libretto dimensions, paper grammage and the named recipient at the festival venue or your tour hotel. For material travelling with the ensemble, every piece should be packed in checked luggage with a packing list that crosses customs unopened; the rest ships consolidated with Carta Porte 3.0. The festival venue is not to be treated as an open courier address, and a named concierge at your tour hotel is usually the best option for receiving sensitive material outside venue hours.
Ten to twelve weeks is the safe window when production runs from CDMX and the material crosses to Europe. Shorter programmes are possible only after confirming in writing the print capacity, available T-shirt batch and customs permits.
Yes, when the organiser or venue have confirmed the freight slot, dock window and named consignee. Most Mexican ensembles split the shipment between the venue dock and a named concierge at their tour hotel, especially for material that arrives before the rehearsal.
Yes. We separate the lots from the brief: programmes and relationship gifts travel as export with Carta Porte 3.0; cast T-shirts and librettos are documented as tour equipment without IVA charged. The 16% IVA line applies only to the national component and stays clean for your finance team.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps Mexican ensembles prepare their tour merch. It does not organise, sponsor or represent the festival, the venue or any allied programmer.
Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier for participating ensembles and producers. This page helps Mexican teams prepare the merch for their Mediterranean tours; it does not represent the festival organiser, the venue or any allied programmer.