Choral singing has long had a gender-bending history, but women singing tenor is a recent phenomenon. (Chris Maddaloni / CQ Roll Call via Getty Images) When I was 18 years old, I wanted to sing tenor.

Imagine. You’re a singer in Argentina and Luciano Pavarotti wants to hear you. Only you don’t know many opera arias, you sing in musicals, and you don’t know the role of Tosca, which is what the Great ...