316:. He frequently held solo concerts and gave masterclasses across the world with his wife. An avid learner, he himself continued to travel to the United States for summer masterclasses offered by various opera companies and universities. He was the first Chinese singer to hold a concert in US, in 1986. He was invited to give a solo vocal concert in the domestic palace of Japan by the prince of Japan, and he sang the bass solo part of
294:, then still a rural area mostly dependent on agriculture and light industry. Wen was forbidden to practice operatic singing, apparently because it was deemed "too Western". In a 2020 interview with Cao Kefan, Wang revealed that her husband resorted to shouting as a substitute for warming up his vocal cords. Another anecdote exists which tells of Wen finding various excuses to defy the
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and practice singing, including rallying workers at the factory he was working at into singing patriotic songs; so popular was he with the other laborers that they protected him whenever the Red Guards tried to beat him up. When the ban on classical music was lifted, husband and wife returned to
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performing at a concert; the pair would eventually cross paths in the future and Si continued to be a close friend and mentor to Wen. His music-loving father encouraged and nurtured his interest in opera. He pursued his studies at
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