He was baptised at the Santa Maria delle Vigne of Genoa on 25 April 1856 and died in Paris on 12 February 1922.
During the season of 1882-1883 Saracco danced at Paris, where he performed the title role of the ballet Excelsior by Luigi Manzotti and Romualdo Marenco.
He then spent a year in London at the Alhambra Theatre, where he met and married the singer Emma Davies.
Saracco left London in 1886 in order to become the ballet master at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, a position he held until 1888.
He then started travelling between Milan, Monte-Carlo, and Brussels, and also performed at Saint Petersburg, Odessa Moscow, London, and Geneva.