House programmes and libretti
Bilingual libretti, per-concert programmes and vocal scores on FSC-certified paper, with print runs separated by title and by performance day.
Scheduled · Zaragoza, Spain
For Mexican producers, dance companies, music ensembles and technical teams taking performances to the Zaragoza festival — programmes, per-concert programmes, tour apparel and relationship gifts delivered to the venue or to your tour hotel.
The Zaragoza festival is one of the cultural platforms with the highest projection in the Ebro valley, and the Mexican ensembles that cross the Atlantic to perform outside competition typically bring a tight agenda: dress rehearsal, gala performance, morning session for specialist critics, and the complementary tour through allied theatres in Madrid, Barcelona 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 show day with programmes for the wrong title.
For a typical Mexican ensemble — say, a stable company of ten performers, a technical crew of four, and the artistic direction — the merch programme splits into three clearly differentiated allocations. The house allocation is built around the theatre audience: bilingual programmes, per-concert programmes, sheets with synopsis and footnotes on the piece being staged, 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 performance loads its own print run.
The cast and guest allocation is built separately: T-shirts and hoodies with the company name and the tour for performers who spend whole days between rehearsal and performance in the theatre; courtesy programmes for guest soloists joining one or two performances; compact gifts for guest musicians and the technical crew. 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, for festival producers with whom the next season is closing, and for representatives of the cultural press covering the performances. This is the line where merch becomes a working tool months after the performance: a box well assembled in the dressing room of the festival turns into a programming email the following autumn. We bet on FSC-certified cotton paper for programmes, high-grammage card for press kits and organic cotton textiles or lyocell blends for tour apparel.
Mexican producers taking performances to the Zaragoza festival usually invoice the full order from Mexico under the definitive export scheme — a pedimento code 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 company prefers to ship programmes from CDMX via an international courier and the rest as checked luggage, we issue separate CFDI per leg so every lot closes clean.
Zaragoza and the Madrid–Barcelona–Valencia axis concentrate programmers with editorial taste and cultural press with historical memory. A generic gift is discarded before leaving the dressing room. That is why the print runs that work best are short, signed, watermarked and with hand finishing where it adds value: a box a Spanish programmer keeps for six months in their office, not a tote bag that ends up in the dressing-room bin. Curation outweighs volume in this corridor.
Bilingual libretti, per-concert programmes and vocal scores on FSC-certified paper, with print runs separated by title and by performance day.
T-shirts, hoodies and light jackets with the company name and tour, in organic cotton or lyocell blends, sized for performers and technical crew.
Courtesy libretti, recordings and archive material reserved for critics and allied programmers covering the performance.
Compact boxes assembled by recipient for allied theatre programmers, festival producers closing the next season and international cultural press.
Before starting production, confirm print runs per performance, programme dimensions, paper grammage and the named recipient at the festival venue or at the tour hotel. For material travelling with the cast, each piece must be packed in checked luggage with a packing list that crosses customs without being opened; the rest ships consolidated under Carta Porte 3.0. The festival venue should not be treated as an open courier address, and a named concierge at the tour hotel is usually the best option for receiving sensitive material outside the venue schedule.
Ten to twelve weeks is the safe window when production runs from CDMX and the material crosses to Europe. Shorter programmes are only possible after written confirmation of press capacity, available T-shirt lot and customs permits.
Yes, when the organiser or the venue confirms the loading slot, dock window and named recipient. Most Mexican producers split the shipment between the venue dock and a named concierge at their tour hotel, especially for material arriving before rehearsal.
Yes. We separate the lots from the brief: programmes and relationship gifts ship as export under Carta Porte 3.0; T-shirts and cast libretti are documented as tour equipment without assessed IVA. The 16% national IVA line only applies to the national component and stays clean for your finance team.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps Mexican producers 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 producers and ensembles. This page helps Mexican teams prepare their tour merch for the festival; it does not represent the festival organiser, the venue or any allied programmer.