I think this is where trusting your teacher is really important. Sometimes you need to be challenged, and it's not always going to be fun, and it certainly won't always be easy, and you won't always sound good. That's part of the process of learning to be a great voice -- having the discipline and patience to go through frustrating plateaus and times when you're singing something you hate, when you know you sound like nails on a chalkboard, singing one phrase over and over again until you feel like you could SCREAM, and making no visible (to you) progress for weeks on end.
Then, a couple of months later, your voice suddenly rounds a corner and voila, it's all easier and you have added a new building block to your voice. Then when you go back to your earlier literature, you realize how much progress you have made and you understand why your teacher gave you that assignment. Yes, it would have been easier to spend that time happily singing the stuff you do best, but it might not have taught you that particular skill that you needed.
If you trust your teacher to know what's best for your voice, then you just have to agree that singing isn't always easy, and to honestly try your best even if you don't like it. I mean, I have a great Eb (Eb5... my high Eb is terrible). Does that mean I should sing only an Eb until the rest of the voice becomes easier? No... you learn to sing an F by singing an F.
I would never (well, I have, and that's why I would never again in the future) take a challenge piece out into an audition/competition/recital/master class, and in the beginning stages I wouldn't even practice the hard stuff unless my teacher tells me to do something specific with it, but you have to trust him or her to know that what you've been assigned to sing is the next step for your vocal development.
Isabelle B.
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