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Abstract:: It seems that the Internet technology have made traditional opera art get new chances of living.However，it is paradoxical that rather than enjoying greater publicity and popularity，the traditional operasseem to disappear beneath the great mass of information on the Internet and cannot compete with other formsof culture for making a living in cyberspace. According to some researchers，the Internet technology is onlya sufficient condition for the rebirth of traditional opera in the new cultural background，and the essentialcondition is to arouse netizens’interest in opera and its extended products. On the one hand，we need a deepunderstanding of the revolutionary changes brought by the Internet technology to enable the traditional operato survive on the Internet；on the other hand，we should upgrade our concepts and ideas on the protection andinheritance of culture：while we protect the traditional culture statically，we have to pursue a dynamic or“ living”protection in line with the new developments in the social culture and cyber ecology through stimulating thepublic’s interest in traditional culture.