In a sentence published on Thursday,
Italy's Constitutional Court ruled that a government decree
converted into law last year providing for opera house
superintendents to leave their post once they turn 70, rather
than when their contract expires, is unconstitutional.
The decree is illegitimate because there are no conditions of
extraordinary need or emergency to justify it, according to the
sentence.
The top court ruled on a constitutionality issue raised by the
tribunal of Naples over the case of Stéphane Lissner, the
superintendent of the San Carlo in Naples, the world's oldest
opera house, who had to step down before his contract expired in
June 2023 due to the decree that 'retired' him having already
turned 70.
The tribunal of Naples, which raised the constitutionality
issue, reinstated Lissner to his post after he filed a suit
against his ouster..
The censored measure provided for the early retirement, as of
June 1, 2023, of opera house foundation superintendents who had
turned 70, regardless of the expiration date of their contracts.
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