Dance-opera which adopt the story and the spirit of Ma-zu as the outline of creation and dancing as the theme is an artistic form created through a combination of opera, music, literature, lighting, stage, fine arts and so on. Based on a study of the subject creation, musical performance mode, content design and musical instruments, this paper attempts to analyze the artistic characteristics of the music in Ma-zu dance-opera and improve comprehensive recognition of the music in the modern dance-opera of Ma-zu.