A correction from the Met press office:  

The attached version of the 2011-12 season announcement corrects an error included in an earlier version of the release. Contrary to what was reported on page 2 [“Gelb noted that the average age of the Met’s audience, based on a recent survey, had been reduced from 65 to 57 over the first five years of his tenure as General Manager”], surveys done by the Met show that the average age of a subscriber actually went from 66.4 in 2005 to 64.8 in 2011, while in that same period, the age of the average Met audience member (including single sale customers and subscribers) went from 60.4 in 2005 to 57.7 in 2011. We apologize for the error.

In other news, the associate who supplied these figures to Gelb was last seen boarding a train departing for Boston at 5:00 pm at a speed of 45 miles per hour.