American baritone Mark Delavan has demonstrated remarkable versatility at Lyric, where he has scored major successes in operas by Gluck, Verdi, Wagner, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and Bolcom. The Verdi repertoire has brought Delavan many triumphs at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Munich, San Francisco, and Santa Fe. He's making his role debut this season at Lyric in his 14th Verdi role, Anckarstrom/A Masked Ball, which he discusses here in a lively conversation with Lyric broadcast producer Mark Travis.