Il saggio è destinato agli Studi in onore di Alessandro Garilli.

The author examines the evolution of the legislation on fixed-term employment contracts in lyric bodies and similar concert institutions, which since 23 May 1998 have been transformed into foundations under private law. In particular, the interpretative questions arising on the subject are analyzed, both with reference to case law of the CJEU and to the recent law no. 81/2019, which re-proposes the constant characteristic of the specialty and the separateness of the discipline of fixed-term employment contracts in lyrical foundations with respect to common law, due to the recognized peculiarity of the sector, which radically differs from that of the other production areas for the need to respect the constraints of organic plants and financial and property balances connected with the performance of their public purposes.