Pergolesi Spontini Festival 2027: B2B kits for opera productions, ensembles and musical delegations

B2B merchandising for the Pergolesi Spontini Festival

Dates

Summer and autumn programme from August to October, with the season published by the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini

Venue

Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, Teatro Galli in Fano, other historic theatres of the Marche, partner venues of the season

Organiser

Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Regione Marche and the Marche municipalities

The Pergolesi Spontini Festival — promoted by the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Regione Marche, the Comune di Jesi and a network of partner theatres and venues across the Marche — is the festival of early music, baroque opera, contemporary opera and symphonic music that every year, between summer and autumn, brings to the historic theatres of the Marche high-profile opera productions, early-music and contemporary ensembles, soloists, conductors, directors, accredited music press and a public of enthusiasts and operators. The programming spans a main season at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi and dates at partner theatres: Teatro Galli in Fano, Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, Teatro dell’Aquila in Fermo, Auditorium Misa in Macerata and other historic theatres of the region. For the productions and ensembles participating with their own title or a new production in time the calendar is packed and the recipients are heterogeneous: recital audience, music critics, partner theatre delegations, artistic directors of twin festivals, programme sponsors.

Four audience tiers, four distinct kits

The singer or conductor participating in the opera production needs a discreet, curated kit: cabin–size trolley branded with the opera’s name, coordinated beauty case, bilingual agenda, personal accreditation pass, a small leather folder for the scores. The delegation of a partner European theatre (Berlin Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra de Lyon, Teatro Real, Royal Opera House Covent Garden) following the production requires a more structured programme: leather folder, bilingual agenda, season catalogue, country-of-origin item, multilingual labelling. The accredited music press — correspondents of Italian and foreign outlets, critics of Opera, Opernwelt, Le Monde, Financial Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, trade magazine editorial teams — receives materials functional to coverage: document folder, agenda, quality pen, bilingual press sheets, service communicators. The recital audience expects a coordinated, portable souvenir: cotton shopper, festival bookmark, coordinated small stationery.

Production on Italian supply chains

For a merch programme around a Pergolesi Spontini production, our operational hub manages the full chain. We receive the production’s master artwork files (AI, EPS, PDF/X-4 with CMYK images at 300 dpi, FOGRA39 colour profile) and adapt them to the different customisation techniques: water-based screen printing on GOTS-certified organic cotton for tote bags and sweatshirts, hot foil stamping on FSC-certified paper for programme booklets and press sheets, laser engraving on Scandicci small leather goods for the singer and conductor folders, milled binding for the season catalogues, laser marking on Maniago stainless steel for keyrings and small accessories. The pre-production physical sample with Pantone colour map and technical sheet travels on Italian supply chains (Scandicci leather, Maniago steel, Fabriano paper for art prints, Collodi wood for small items) and the delivery reaches the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, a Jesi or Ancona hotel, a Marche consolidation warehouse or the production’s office, on slots agreed with the production’s contact.

Why the Marche hub matters

Most opera productions and ensembles running a programme around the Pergolesi Spontini Festival coordinate their Italian operations from Milan, Rome, Jesi or the home theatres. The Marche hub — with consolidation warehouses in Jesi, Ancona and Fano — lets us receive graphic files with the production’s team, route the pre-production sample through Italian supply chains and dispatch the batch to the Teatro Pergolesi or the delegation’s hotel on a very short window, twenty-four hours from the Marche. For programmes that bring together an Italian production and a European co–production we handle bilingual materials (Italian and English at minimum) and, on request, full multilingual release with translations aligned to ISO 17100. For programmes that pair the Pergolesi Spontini with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Ravenna Festival or the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto we replicate the logistics across the two dates with a single operational contact.

Production, logistics and invoicing towards Jesi and the Marche

Before starting production we close master artwork files, quantities per production and per recipient, packaging and named receiving point. The final delivery address is locked against the production manager’s or the production’s logistics contact’s calendar: the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, a Jesi or Ancona hotel, the Teatro Galli in Fano or a Marche consolidation warehouse. The access constraints of the Marche historic centres and the provincial traffic patterns condition the loading slots, which is why most teams opt for early-morning or after-20:00 deliveries, when commercial vehicles are again admitted into the central areas.

For an Italian programme routed through the Marche deliveries are consolidated at the hub and shipped to the Teatro Pergolesi or the delegation’s hotel with 24-hour windows via BRT, SDA, GLS or DHL Express Italia, by appointment for venues that require telephone notice. For programmes above 1,000 pieces we offer appointment delivery with telephone notice and, on request, on-site set-up by our staff at the press room or the production’s hospitality area. For materials requiring controlled environmental conditions (FSC-certified paper, catalogues, small leather goods) we coordinate temperature-controlled transport with specialised partners. For kits destined for international delegations we handle multilingual labelling (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic) and tamper-evident bag packaging with bilingual packing list addressed to the recipient. For clients subject to CSRD reporting (Italian Legislative Decree 125/2024, transposing EU Directive 2022/2464) we attach a per-order sustainability sheet with Scope 3 CO₂e estimate under the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain for the Lombardy–Marche route.

All Italian B2B orders are invoiced in EUR at the standard 22% VAT rate (with reduced rates of 4%, 5% and 10% applied when the product category allows it: publishing, art objects, designation-of-origin products) and routed through the Italian Revenue Agency’s Exchange System (SdI) to the recipient code or to the buyer’s certified email (PEC) address. Corp-Merch.IT is an Italian VAT-registered entity, listed in VIES for intra–EU transactions, and handles reverse charge, split payment and self-invoicing for public administration in line with current Italian legislation.

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